Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company has announced the general availability of Amazon Textract, a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to automatically extract text & data, including from tables & forms, in virtually any document without the need for manual review, custom code, or machine learning experience.
AWS said in a press release that Amazon Textract went beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify the contents of fields in forms, information stored in tables, & the context in which the information is presented, such as a name or social security number from a tax form or the product SKU or quantity in a warehouse from an inventory report.
The extracted text & data could be used to build smart searches on large archives of documents, or be loaded into a database for use by applications, such as accounting, auditing, & compliance software.
Amazon Textract’s API supports multiple image formats like scans, PDFs, & photos, & customers can use it with database and analytics services like Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB, & AmazonAthena & other machine learning services like Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon Translate, & Amazon SageMaker to derive deeper meaning from the extracted text and data. To get started with Amazon Textract, visit https://aws.amazon.com/textract.
“The power of Amazon Textract is that it accurately extracts text and structured data from virtually any document with no machine learning experience required. Subsequently, developers can analyze and query the extracted text and data using our database and analytics services like Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Athena and integrate with other machine learning services like Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon Translate, and Amazon SageMaker to help customers derive deeper meaning from the extracted text and data,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, in a written statement.
“In addition to the integration with other AWS services, the rich partner community developing around Amazon Textract makes it possible for customers to gain real meaning from their file collections, operate more efficiently, improve security compliance, automate data entry, and facilitate faster business decisions.”
