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Category: Amazon Textract

Build well-architected IDP solutions with a custom lens – Part 3: Reliability

The IDP Well-Architected Custom Lens is intended for all AWS customers who use AWS to run intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions and are searching for guidance on how to build a secure, efficient, and reliable IDP solution on AWS. Building a production-ready solution in the cloud involves a series of trade-offs between resources, time, customer […]

Build well-architected IDP solutions with a custom lens – Part 4: Performance efficiency

When a customer has a production-ready intelligent document processing (IDP) workload, we often receive requests for a Well-Architected review. To build an enterprise solution, developer resources, cost, time and user-experience have to be balanced to achieve the desired business outcome. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a systematic way for organizations to learn operational and architectural […]

Build well-architected IDP solutions with a custom lens – Part 5: Cost optimization

Building a production-ready solution in the cloud involves a series of trade-off between resources, time, customer expectation, and business outcome. The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the benefits and risks of decisions you make while building workloads on AWS. An intelligent document processing (IDP) project usually combines optical character recognition (OCR) and natural language […]

Build well-architected IDP solutions with a custom lens – Part 6: Sustainability

An intelligent document processing (IDP) project typically combines optical character recognition (OCR) and natural language processing (NLP) to automatically read and understand documents. Customers across all industries run IDP workloads on AWS to deliver business value by automating use cases such as KYC forms, tax documents, invoices, insurance claims, delivery reports, inventory reports, and more. […]

Layout visualization with Amazon Textract Textractor

Amazon Textract’s new Layout feature introduces efficiencies in general purpose and generative AI document processing tasks

Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. AnalyzeDocument Layout is a new feature that allows customers to automatically extract layout elements such as paragraphs, titles, subtitles, headers, footers, and more from documents. Layout extends Amazon Textract’s word and line detection by automatically […]

Customize Amazon Textract with business-specific documents using Custom Queries

Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. Queries is a feature that enables you to extract specific pieces of information from varying, complex documents using natural language. Custom Queries provides a way for you to customize the Queries feature for your business-specific, non-standard documents […]

Intelligent document processing with Amazon Textract, Amazon Bedrock, and LangChain

In today’s information age, the vast volumes of data housed in countless documents present both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. Traditional document processing methods often fall short in efficiency and accuracy, leaving room for innovation, cost-efficiency, and optimizations. Document processing has witnessed significant advancements with the advent of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). With […]

Dataset architecture

How United Airlines built a cost-efficient Optical Character Recognition active learning pipeline

In this post, we discuss how United Airlines, in collaboration with the Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab, build an active learning framework on AWS to automate the processing of passenger documents. “In order to deliver the best flying experience for our passengers and make our internal business process as efficient as possible, we have developed […]

Generative AI and multi-modal agents in AWS: The key to unlocking new value in financial markets

Multi-modal data is a valuable component of the financial industry, encompassing market, economic, customer, news and social media, and risk data. Financial organizations generate, collect, and use this data to gain insights into financial operations, make better decisions, and improve performance. However, there are challenges associated with multi-modal data due to the complexity and lack […]

Implement smart document search index with Amazon Textract and Amazon OpenSearch

In this post, we’ll take you on a journey to rapidly build and deploy a document search indexing solution that helps your organization to better harness and extract insights from documents. Whether you’re in Human Resources looking for specific clauses in employee contracts, or a financial analyst sifting through a mountain of invoices to extract payment data, this solution is tailored to empower you to access the information you need with unprecedented speed and accuracy.