Chapter 17: Visualizing Insights from Handwritten Content

In the previous chapters, we talked about and learned how to build Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) pipelines using Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon A2I. The advantage of setting up such pipelines is that you introduce automation into your operational processes and unlock insights that were previously not so evident. Speaking of insights, what are they exactly and why is everyone so interested in mining text, and of what use can they be?

To answer this, let's summon Doc Brown and Marty McFly's time-traveling car, the DeLorean from the movie Back to the Future, and travel back to Chapter 1, NLP in the Business Context and Introduction to AWS AI Services, to re-read the Understanding why NLP is becoming mainstream section. Remember now? Maybe this will help: according to Webster's dictionary (https://www.merriam-webster.com/), the word "insight" is defined as "the act or result...