Amazon Textract

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Amazon Textract

Last updated on February 28, 2023

Amazon Textract Cheat Sheet

  • A fully managed document analysis service for detecting and extracting information from scanned documents.
  • Returns extracted data as key-value pairs (e.g., Name: John Doe)
  • Supports virtually any type of documents
  • Can detect text written in Standard English alphabet and ASCII symbols.

Common Use Cases:

  • Building search indexes
  • Importing documents into a business application
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  • Building automated document processing solutions
  • Text extraction for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Applications
  • Maintaining document compliance

Concepts

  • Amazon Textract returns a confidence score for each identified element, which indicates the probability that a given prediction is correct.
  • A low-confidence score can be rerouted to Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for further human review.
  • The asynchronous operation allows you to process multipage PDF documents.
  • Detect Document Text API
    •  Uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to extract printed text and handwriting from a document.
  • Analyze Document API
    • Extracts printed text, handwriting, and other data from tables and key-value pairs from forms.

Amazon Textract Pricing

  • You only pay for what you use.
  • Charges vary for Detect Document Text API and Analyze Document API, with the latter being the more expensive.

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Amazon Textract Cheat Sheet References References:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/what-is.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/textract-best-practices.html
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/using-amazon-textract-with-amazon-augmented-ai-for-processing-critical-documents/

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