Summary

In this chapter, we saw a detailed introduction to Amazon Textract and its product features, along with a console walk-through, as well as running code samples using Textract APIs for different types of documents using both real-time and batch analysis.

We started by introducing the ready-made intelligence that Amazon Textract offers with powerful pre-trained ML models, and the ability to use its capabilities in your applications with just an API call. We also read about some popular use cases that Textract can be used for, along with references to some of the following chapters, where we will review those use cases in greater detail. We also read about Textract's benefits as compared to traditional OCR applications and rule-based document processing.

We covered various examples on how you can use Amazon Textract with different types of scanned images and forms. We reviewed different functions of Textract, such as detecting raw text, detecting form values that are...