Chapter 3: Introducing Amazon Comprehend
In the previous chapter, we covered how you can use Amazon Textract for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and deep dive into its features and specific API implementations. In this chapter, you will get a detailed introduction to Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Comprehend Medical, what their functions are, what business challenges they were created to solve, what features they have, what types of user requirements they can be applied to, and how easy it is to integrate Comprehend with different AWS services, such as AWS Lambda, to build business applications.
In this chapter, we will go through the following sections:
- Understanding Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Comprehend Medical
- Exploring Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Comprehend Medical product features
- Using Amazon Comprehend with your applications