Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables. With Amazon Textract, you pay only for what you use. There are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments. Amazon Textract charges only for pages processed whether you extract text, text with tables, form data, queries or process invoices and identity documents. See the FAQ for additional details about pages and acceptable use of Amazon Textract.
Amazon Textract has four different APIs: Detect Document Text API, Analyze Document API, Analyze Expense API, and Analyze ID API.
Detect Document Text API uses OCR technology to extract text and handwriting from a document.
Analyze Document API has three features, Forms, Tables and Queries. You have the flexibility to call any combination of Forms, Tables and Queries together.
- Analyze Document API for Forms extracts data such as key-value pairs (“First Name” and associated value, such as “Jane Smith”). It also uses OCR technology to extract all the text and handwriting from a document.
- Analyze Document API for Tables extracts tabular or table data organized in columns and rows. It also uses OCR technology to extract all the text and handwriting from a document.
- Analyze Document API for Queries provides you the flexibility to specify the information you need from a document (e.g., “What is the customer name?”) and receive that data (e.g., “Jane Doe”) as part of the response. You do not need to worry about the structure of the data in the document or variations in how the data is laid out across different formats and versions of the document. It also uses OCR technology to extract all the text and handwriting from a document.
Free Tier
As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Textract for free. The Free Tier lasts for three months, and new AWS customers can analyze up to:
Detect Document Text API: 1,000 pages per month
Analyze Document API:
- 100 Pages per month when using Forms or Tables feature
- Additional 100 pages per month when using Queries feature NEW
Analyze Expense API: 100 pages per month
Analyze ID API: 100 pages per month
Amazon Textract API pricing
*Analyze Document API output comes with OCR included irrespective of feature type selected
*Analyze Expense and Analyze ID APIs do not have OCR included in the output
Pricing examples outside the free tier
Pricing example 1 - Detect Document Text API
Let’s say you want to extract the text from 100,000 pages of research reports using the Detect Document Text API. The pricing per page in US West (Oregon) region for the first one million pages is $0.0015, for a cost of $150.
Total pages processed = 100,000
Price per page = $0.0015
Total charge per month = $0.0015 * 100,000 = $150
Pricing example 2 - Detect Document Text API
Let’s say you want to extract the text from two million pages of research reports using the Detect Document Text API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for the first one million pages is $0.0015, and pages after one million are $0.0006 so for processing two million pages the total cost would be $2,100.
Total pages processed = 2,000,000
Price per page = $0.0015 for first 1 million and $0.0006 for pages after 1 million
Total charge per month = $0.0015 * 1,000,000 + $0.0006 * 1,000,000 = $1,500 + $600 = $2,100
Pricing example 3 - Analyze Document API – Forms and Tables
Let’s say you want to extract the text and structured data from 5,000 pages of tax forms using the Analyze Document API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages with tables is $0.015, and with forms is $0.05, for a total of $325.
Total pages processed = 5,000 pages
Price for page with table = $0.015
Price for page with form (key-value pair) = $0.05
Total charge = $0.015 * 5,000 + $0.05 * 5,000 = $75 + $250 = $325
Pricing example 4 - Analyze Document API – Forms and Tables
Let’s say you want to extract text, forms, and tables from two million pages of tax forms using the Analyze Document API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages with tables is $0.015, and $0.01 per page after one million pages. Pages with forms is $0.05 for one million pages, and $0.04 per page after one million. The total cost would be $115,000.
Total pages processed = 2,000,000 pages
Price for page with form (key-value pair) = $0.05 for the first 1 million and $0.04 for the next 1 million
Total charge = $0.015 * 1,000,000 + $0.01 * 1,000,000 + $0.05 * 1,000,000 + $0.04 * 1,000,000 = $15,000 + $10,000 + 50,000 + 40,000 = $115,000
Pricing example 5 - Analyze Document API - Queries
Let’s say you want to extract the text from 5,000 pages of mortgage forms using the Analyze Document API. You also want to extract 10 specific data points from each page via Queries. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages is $0.015, for a total of $75.
Total pages processed = 5,000 pages
Price per page with Queries = $0.015
Total charge = $0.015 * 5,000 = $75
Pricing example 6 - Analyze Document API - Forms and Queries
Let’s say you want to extract the text and tables data from 5,000 pages of tax forms using the Analyze Document API. You also want to extract 10 specific data points from each page via Queries. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages with Tables and Queries is $0.020, and $0.015 per page after one million pages. The total cost would be $100.
Total pages processed = 5,000 pages
Price for page with table and Queries = $0.020
Total charge = $0.020 * 5,000 = $100
Pricing example 7 – Analyze Document API – Forms and Queries
Let’s say you want to extract the text and forms data (key-value pairs) from 5,000 pages of insurance forms using the Analyze Document API. You also want to extract 10 specific data points from each page via Queries. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages with Forms and Queries is $0.055, and $0.045 per page after one million pages. The total cost would be $275.
Total pages processed = 5,000 pages
Price for page with Forms (key-value pair) and Queries = $0.055
Total charge = $0.055 * 5,000 = $275
Pricing example 8 – Analyze Document API – Forms and Tables and Queries
Let’s say you want to extract text, forms, and tables from two million pages of pay stubs using the Analyze Document API. You also want to extract 10 specific data points from each page via Queries. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages with Tables, Forms and Queries is $0.070, and $0.055 per page after one million pages. The total cost would be $125,000.
Total pages processed = 2,000,000 pages
Price for page with Tables, Forms and Queries = $0.070 for the first one million and $0.055 for the next one million
Total charge = $0.070 * 1,000,000 + $0.055 * 1,000,000 = $70,000 + $55,000 = $125,000
Pricing example 9 – Analyze Expense API
Let’s assume you want to extract data from 100,000 invoices using the Analyze Expense API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for 1 million pages is $0.01 and you process 100,000 invoices. The total cost would be $1,000. See the calculation below:
Total pages processed = 100,000
Price per page = $0.01
Total charge per month = $0.01 * 100,000 = $1,000
Pricing example 10 – Analyze Expense API
Let’s assume you want to extract data from 1,500,000 invoices using the Analyze Expense API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages is $0.01 per page and $0.008 per page after one million. The total cost would be $14,000. See the calculation below:
Total pages processed = 1,500,000
Price per page = $0.01 for the first 1 million and $0.008 for the next 500,000
Total charge per month = $0.01 * 1,000,000 + $0.008 * 500,000 = $14,000
Pricing example 11 – Analyze ID API
Let’s say you want to extract information from 100,000 identity documents using the Analyze ID API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) Region for 100,000 pages is $0.025 per page for up to 100,000 pages. The total cost would be $2,500.
Total pages processed = 100,000
Price per page = $0.025
Total charge per month = $0.025 * 100,000 = $2,500
Pricing example 12 – Analyze ID API
Let’s say you want to extract information from 600,000 identity documents using the Analyze ID API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) Region for 100,000 pages is $0.025 per page and $0.01 per page after 100,000. The total cost would be $7,500.
Total pages processed = 600,000
Price per page = $0.025 for the first 100K and $0.01 for the next 500,000
Total charge per month = $0.025 * 100,000 + $0.01 * 500,000 = $7,500
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