Amazon Textract

• Automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any scanned documents using AI and ML
• Is a ML product used to detect and analyse text contained in input documents such as JPEG, PNG, PDF or TIFF
• The output is extracted text, structure of that text and any analysis that can be performed on that text
• Extract data from forms and tables
• For most documents Textract is capable to operate in a synchronous way (real time)
• For large documents it will operate in asynchronous way
• It is pay per usage, custom pricing being available for large volume of documents
• Use cases:
  • Detection of text and the relationship between the text, example receipt - dates, items, prices.
  • Document analysis:
    • For generic documents might detect names, addresses, birth date, etc.
    • For receipts: prices, vendors, line items, dates, etc.
    • Identity documents: abstraction of certain fields to being able to store them in a table of a database
  • Financial Services (e.g., invoices, financial reports)
  • Healthcare (e.g., medical records, insurance claims)
  • Public Sector (e.g., tax forms, ID documents, passports)
• It can be integrated with other AWS services