Amazon Textract
Amazon Textract detects and extracts typed and handwritten text from documents, forms, and tables using machine learning. The service goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) by understanding document structure and relationships between text elements.
Core Benefits​
Advanced Document Understanding: Recognizes document structure, forms, and tables while maintaining relationships between text elements, headers, and data fields for accurate information extraction.
Handwriting Recognition: Processes both printed and handwritten text with high accuracy, eliminating the need for manual data entry from diverse document types.
Structured Data Extraction: Automatically identifies and extracts key-value pairs from forms and tabular data, preserving data relationships and formatting for downstream processing.
Scalable Processing: Handles large volumes of documents efficiently through batch processing and real-time analysis capabilities for immediate document digitization needs.
Use Cases​
Financial Document Processing​
Banks and insurance companies use Textract to digitize loan applications, claims forms, and financial statements. The service extracts customer information, financial data, and signatures from scanned documents, accelerating approval processes while reducing manual data entry errors and processing costs.
Healthcare Records Digitization​
Healthcare organizations deploy Textract to convert paper medical records, prescription forms, and patient intake documents into searchable digital formats. The service extracts patient information, medical histories, and treatment details while maintaining compliance with healthcare privacy regulations.
Legal Document Analysis​
Law firms leverage Textract to process contracts, court filings, and legal documents for case preparation and compliance review. The service extracts key terms, dates, parties, and clauses from complex legal documents, enabling faster document analysis and evidence discovery.
Government Form Processing​
Public sector agencies use Textract to digitize citizen applications, tax forms, and permit requests. The service automates data extraction from diverse government forms, reducing processing times and improving citizen services while maintaining data accuracy and security.
Supply Chain Documentation​
Logistics companies deploy Textract to process invoices, receipts, and shipping documents for automated accounts payable and supply chain management. The service extracts vendor information, amounts, and tracking details from various document formats.
Key Features​
Textract provides confidence scores for extracted text and supports various document formats including PDFs, images, and multi-page documents. The service offers specialized APIs for forms, tables, and general text extraction with customizable output formats.
Shared Responsibility Model​
AWS Responsibilities: Amazon manages the machine learning infrastructure, OCR model training and updates, service availability, and security of the document processing pipeline.
Customer Responsibilities: You handle document preparation and quality, extracted data validation and processing, integration with downstream systems, and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations for processed documents.
Textract transforms document processing workflows by automatically converting physical and digital documents into structured, searchable data without manual intervention or custom development.
Use case: Ideal for organizations processing large volumes of documents requiring data extraction, from financial services and healthcare to legal firms and government agencies.