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Amazon Textract

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description Amazon Textract Overview

Amazon Textract is a cloud service that leverages optical character recognition (OCR) technology to process scanned documents, forms, and PDFs. It converts images of text into structured data, including tables and key-value pairs. This makes it useful for businesses and developers needing to automate data extraction from physical or digital documents, particularly those working with large volumes of unstructured information.

help Amazon Textract FAQ

Can Amazon Textract pull tables and form fields from PDFs, or only raw OCR text?

Amazon Textract can do both. Its Detect Document Text API extracts printed text and handwriting, while Analyze Document handles features such as Forms, Tables, Queries, and Signatures.

When would I use Amazon Textract instead of Tesseract OCR?

Textract is useful when you need structured outputs like key-value pairs, invoice fields, or table cells from scanned PDFs. Tesseract can read text, but Textract is built as an AWS document-processing service rather than only an OCR engine.

Does Amazon Textract work with invoices and ID documents?

Yes. AWS has separate Analyze Expense and Analyze ID APIs for receipts, invoices, passports, driver's licenses, and similar documents. It also has Analyze Lending for mortgage document packages.

How is Amazon Textract priced for small tests?

AWS offers a limited free tier for new customers for the first 3 months, with page limits depending on the API. Outside the free tier, pricing is per page, and AWS lists examples such as Detect Document Text in US West at $0.0015 per page for the first million pages.

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