AWS IOT Analytics

Amazon Textract is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to extract text and data from scanned documents, PDF files, and images. Textract uses machine learning algorithms to automatically detect and extract text, tables, and other structured data from these sources. It is part of AWS’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offerings.

Key features of Amazon Textract include:

1. Text Extraction: Textract can detect and extract text from various document types, including scanned documents, PDF files, and images. It can identify text in different fonts, sizes, and orientations.

2. Table Extraction: The service can identify tables within documents and extract the tabular data, providing structured output in a format that can be easily used for further analysis or integration into databases.

3. Form Extraction: Textract can also identify and extract data from forms, such as checkboxes, radio buttons, and text fields, making it useful for processing surveys or other types of form-based data.

4. Handwriting Recognition: It can recognize and extract handwritten text from documents, which can be valuable for digitizing handwritten content.

5. Automatic Document OCR: Textract automatically performs optical character recognition (OCR) on input documents, removing the need for manual pre-processing.

6. API Integration: You can integrate Textract into your applications using AWS SDKs or RESTful APIs, making it easy to incorporate text and data extraction into your workflows.