# Amazon Textract Documentation

Amazon Textract enables you to add document text detection and analysis to your applications. You provide a document image to the Amazon Textract API, and the service detects the document text. Amazon Textract works with formatted text and can detect words and lines of words that are located close to each other. It can also analyze a document for items such as related text, tables, key-value pairs, and selection elements.

- [Developer Guide](/textract/latest/dg/): Provides a conceptual overview of Amazon Textract and detailed instructions for using its various features.
- [API Reference](/textract/latest/APIReference/): Describes the API operations for Amazon Textract. This includes the request parameters and response elements for each API operation, and common errors.

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