Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and US West (N. California) regions

Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and US West (N. California) regions. 

Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. 

Customers can start building with Amazon Textract today using the Amazon Textract Console, or by referring to the documentation. For pricing details by region, please see this page.