Following you will find a brief of Textract
Service
Textract service is divided in 2 API’s
Detect Document Text API: The Detect Document Text API uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to extract text from a provided document.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Detect printed text and numbers in a scan or rendering of a document, use synchronous or asynchronous operations via API and information is returned in JSON format. Synchronous refer to live scenes such as posters or road signs, asynchronous to a multy page documents.
Analyze Document API: The Analyze Document API extracts data from tables and key-value pairs from forms.
Key-Value Pair Extraction: Detect key-value pairs in document images automatically to retain the inherent context of the document. Use synchronous or asynchronous operations to analyze text in a document. The results of text analysis are returned in a JSON format
Table Extraction: Automatically load the extracted data into a database using a pre-defined schema. Preserves the composition of data stored in tables during extraction.
Pricing
No minimum fees and no upfront commitments. Amazon Textract charges for each page processed and whether we extract only text from documents or text with tables and/or form data.
As AWS customers we have access to the API’s in a free tier for 12 months with the following restrictions:
1,000 pages per month using the Detecting Document Text API
100 pages per month using the Analyze Document API
Full price list in the following link: