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Amazon Textract

Easily extract text and data from virtually any document using Amazon Textract. Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. subtitle

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  • Classifying and Extracting Data using Amazon Textract
    Amazon Textract has an Analyze Lending API for evaluating and categorizing the documents contained in mortgage loan application packages, as well as extracting the data they contain. The new API can assist in processing applications quicker and with minimal errors, therefore improving the end-customer experience and lowering operational costs. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
  • Ask HN: OCR for 100 year old (German) handwritten cursive script?
    You could try something like https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ or https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting. Both have support for modern handwriting. I don't know if it will work with a script written a century ago though. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • Deploy and Test AWS Step Functions with Node.js
    Create a main.js file inside the look-for-github-profile-step project folder. Implement the code that parses the resume and plucks the GitHub profile URL. This step function is responsible for using Textract (an AI service from AWS) and passing state back to the state machine. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago
  • Automate invoice processing using AWS Textract
    The primary challenge in processing invoices is extracting the relevant data. This is where Amazon Textract can help. It is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses advanced Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to automatically extract structured and unstructured data from scanned documents, images, and PDF files. It can detect typed and handwritten text in different types of documents including... - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago
  • Case study: PDF Insights with AWS Textract and OpenAI integration
    First, we’ve decided to leave open-source solutions behind. We’ve used AWS Textract to parse PDF files. This way we don’t rely on the internal structure of the PDF to get text from it (or to get nothing - like in the case of the Uber example). Textract uses OCR and machine learning to get not only text but also spatial information from the document. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago
  • Extract Information from PDF
    AWS has an API for this called Textract. Source: 11 months ago
  • maybe somone can help, is there a way to have chat to analyse picture data such as invoices and enter the data into an existing table on sheets?
    Amazon Textract does exactly this. Very reliably too. Been using it in production for a few years now. https://aws.amazon.com/textract/. Source: 12 months ago
  • Seeking advice for my project.
    The service: https://aws.amazon.com/textract/. Source: 12 months ago
  • Being Data-Driven is a Mindset Shift
    Amazon Textract (extracts data from any document). - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
  • The Amplify Series, Part 6: Using the power of AI and Machine Learning with Amplify Predictions
    We will run amplify push to create these resources in AWS. The AWS services used here are Amazon Rekognition for image recognition and Amazon Textract for document analysis. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
  • Need Advice on Automating Adobe Forms
    You can use Python to automate data extraction from PDF files and cleaning the data. You can also use OCR tools like Document AI,Nanonets, Textract or other tools which can allow you to extract specific fields from your PDF files. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Building an OCR service with Amazon Textract and AWS Lambda
    Amazon Textract is Machine Learning (ML) powered OCR provided by Amazon Web Services. Amazon Textract is used to extract text, tables, and forms from organized PDF, image(JPEG, PNG), or handwritten documents. The advantages of using Textract are that:. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
  • Downloading PDF documents (and getting around the blob URL)
    From there you can do whatever you need with the PDF doc. In some cases, a PDF Reader library might work for you. In our case, we send these type of docs over to AWS Textract. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
  • Digitalizing 10 years of handwritten notes -- how would you go about doing it?
    I saw someone using https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ recently (not in obsidian, totally unrelated application) on ~50 year old handwritten notes and the OCR was shockingly accurate. Haven't used it myself but I was impressed by the results. Looks like there's a free tier as well. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Request for suggestions: Software that edits text on scanned images
    Had dabbled with this online tool from Amazon web services: "Intelligently Extract Text & Data with OCR - Amazon Textract - Amazon Web Services” https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ they have a free three month trial of up to 1000 pages per month. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Amazon Kindle Scribe announced; maybe why reMarkable removed the subscription price
    Amazon literally sells OCR (Amazon textract)services, if kindle team doesn’t support that it’s gonna be a real xerox moment. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Tool for scanning and archiving paper documents?
    Are you looking for a tool like AWS Textract? https://aws.amazon.com/textract/. Source: over 1 year ago
  • OcrPy : A Python Library to OCR, Archive, Index and Search any documents with ease, with a simple and intuitive interface and a powerful Pipeline API.
    __Unified interface to google vision, aws textract, azure, tesseract and other OCR tools__ The Core objective of OcrPy is to let users OCR, Archive, Index and Search any documents with ease, with a simple and intuitive interface and a powerful Pipeline API. ocrpy achieves this by wrapping around various OCR engines like [Tesseract OCR](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/), [Aws... Source: over 1 year ago
  • How to automatically extract data from scanned document and enter it into a database?
    Try this: https://aws.amazon.com/textract/. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Tracking grocery price trends on AWS - Part 1 - Ingestion pipeline
    Amazon Textract detects and extracts lines of text from printed receipts. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
  • OCR software?
    I dabbled with Amazon web services tool that did OCR for a problematic customer project I'm unsure of is customizability however. They have a free promotion of 1000 pages/month for the months if you find that is worth a try: https://aws.amazon.com/textract/. Source: almost 2 years ago

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2019 Examples to Compare OCR Services: Amazon Textract/Rekognition vs Google Vision vs Microsoft Cognitive Services
Pricing: Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Textract, Google, Microsoft. We don't really care which one you use, but Microsoft did best by our sample data. Textract was a very close second if you only need its headline feature: extracting text from digital documents. If someone wants to email bill -at- amplenote.com with comparable data for other images/services, I can try to work those into this post as time allows. 😎

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