Textract

• Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents.

• It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables

• Automatically extract printed text, handwriting, and data from any document

• Features:

  • Optical character recognition (OCR)

  • Identifies relationships, structure, and text

  • Uses AI to extract text and structured data

  • Recognizes handwriting as well as printed text

  • Can extract from documents such as PDFs, images, forms, and tables

  • Understands context. For example know what data to extract from a receipt or invoice