Category: Amazon Textract

This post is co-written by Chiranjeev Ghai, ML Engineer at zomato. zomato is a global food-tech company based in India. Are you the kind of person who has very specific cravings? Maybe when the mood hits, you don’t want just any kind of Indian food—you want Chicken Chettinad with a side of paratha, and nothing […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. The AWS CloudFormation template was updated. As organizations grow larger in size, so does the need for having better document processing. In industries such as healthcare, legal, insurance, and banking, the continuous influx of paper-based or PDF documents (like invoices, health charts, and insurance claims) […]

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology, which enables extracting text from an image, has been around since the mid-20th century, and continues to be a research topic today. OCR and document understanding are still vibrant areas of research because they’re both valuable and hard problems to solve. AWS has been investing in improving OCR and document […]

This is a guest post by Anthony Sabelli, Head of Data Science at Kabbage, a data and technology company providing small business cash flow solutions. Kabbage is a data and technology company providing small business cash flow solutions. One way in which we serve our customers is by providing them access to flexible lines of […]

In 1993, the Portable Document Format or the PDF was born and released to the world. Since then, companies across various industries have been creating, scanning, and storing large volumes of documents in this digital format. These documents and the content within them are vital to supporting your business. Yet in many cases, the content […]

Amazon Textract now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate API calls to Amazon Textract from within your VPC and avoid using the public internet. In this post, we show you how to access Amazon Textract APIs from within your VPC without traversing the public internet, […]

You can now use Amazon Textract, a machine learning (ML) service that quickly and easily extracts text and data from forms and tables in scanned documents, for workloads in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and EU (Frankfurt) Regions. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify the contents of fields in forms, […]

Businesses across many industries, including financial, medical, legal, and real estate, process a large number of documents for different business operations. Healthcare and life science organizations, for example, need to access data within medical records and forms to fulfill medical claims and streamline administrative processes. Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that makes […]

Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that makes it easy to extract text and data from scanned documents. Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. This allows you to use Amazon Textract to instantly “read” virtually any type of […]

Organizations across industries have a large number of physical documents such as invoices that they need to process. It is difficult to extract information from a scanned document when it contains tables, forms, paragraphs, and check boxes. Organization have been addressing these problems with manual effort or custom code or by using Optical Character Recognition […]