Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify the contents of fields in forms, information stored in tables, and the context in which the information is presented. Amazon Textract’s API supports multiple image formats like scans, PDFs, and photos, and customers can use it with other AWS machine learning services like Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Comprehend Medical, and Amazon Translate to derive deeper meaning from the extracted text and data. The extracted text and data can also be used to build smart searches on large archives of documents, or it can be loaded into a database for use by applications, such as accounting, auditing, and compliance software. To learn more about Amazon Textract, please visit the Amazon Textract website.

