Document Data Extraction

Amazon Textract

Machine learning service for extracting text, handwriting, tables, forms, and structured data from documents.

Overview

Amazon Textract uses machine learning to extract printed text, handwriting, tables, forms, and specific data from documents such as PDFs and images, supporting multiple languages and document types with high accuracy and scalability.

Updated Jun 27, 2026

6 features

Key Features

Document extraction
Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, layout elements, and data from scanned documents.
Document understanding
It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract specific data from documents.
Scalable processing
Scale up or scale down the document processing pipeline to quickly adapt to market demands.
Financial forms
Accurately extract critical business data such as mortgage rates, applicant names, and invoice totals across a variety of financial forms to process loan and mortgage applications in minutes.
Healthcare forms
Better serve your patients and insurers by extracting important patient data from health intake forms, insurance claims, and pre-authorization forms. Keep data organized and in its original context, and remove manual review of output.
Government forms
Easily extract relevant data from government-related forms, such as small business loans, federal tax forms, and business applications, with a high degree of accuracy.

Pros and cons

Pros

Supports extraction of printed text, handwriting, forms, tables, and signatures from various document types.
Offers customizable query-based extraction for business-specific needs.
Processes identity documents with contextual understanding without templates.
Scalable to handle large volumes of documents with secure data handling.
Includes a free tier for new AWS customers to try multiple APIs.

Cons

Pricing can be complex due to multiple API types and usage tiers.
Limited language support for handwriting, invoices, receipts, and identity documents (English only).
Custom Queries require training adapters which may add setup complexity.
No explicit standalone pricing plans publicly detailed; custom quotes often required for high volume.
Requires AWS account and familiarity with AWS ecosystem for effective use.

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6 features

Key Features

Document extraction
Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, layout elements, and data from scanned documents.
Document understanding
It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract specific data from documents.
Scalable processing
Scale up or scale down the document processing pipeline to quickly adapt to market demands.
Financial forms
Accurately extract critical business data such as mortgage rates, applicant names, and invoice totals across a variety of financial forms to process loan and mortgage applications in minutes.
Healthcare forms
Better serve your patients and insurers by extracting important patient data from health intake forms, insurance claims, and pre-authorization forms. Keep data organized and in its original context, and remove manual review of output.
Government forms
Easily extract relevant data from government-related forms, such as small business loans, federal tax forms, and business applications, with a high degree of accuracy.

Pros and cons

Pros

Supports extraction of printed text, handwriting, forms, tables, and signatures from various document types.
Offers customizable query-based extraction for business-specific needs.
Processes identity documents with contextual understanding without templates.
Scalable to handle large volumes of documents with secure data handling.
Includes a free tier for new AWS customers to try multiple APIs.

Cons

Pricing can be complex due to multiple API types and usage tiers.
Limited language support for handwriting, invoices, receipts, and identity documents (English only).
Custom Queries require training adapters which may add setup complexity.
No explicit standalone pricing plans publicly detailed; custom quotes often required for high volume.
Requires AWS account and familiarity with AWS ecosystem for effective use.

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Amazon Textract

Overview

Key Features

Document extraction

Document understanding

Scalable processing

Financial forms

Healthcare forms

Government forms

Pros and cons

Pros

Cons

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Key Features

Document extraction

Document understanding

Scalable processing

Financial forms

Healthcare forms

Government forms

Pros and cons

Pros

Cons

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Featured Video

Frequently Asked Questions

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