How Amazon Textract Works
Amazon Textract enables you to detect and analyze text in single or multipage input documents (see Input Documents).
Amazon Textract provides operations for you to perform the following actions:
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Detecting text only. For more information see Detecting Text.
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Detecting and analyzing relationships between text. For more information see Analyzing Documents.
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Detecting and analyzing text in invoices and receipts. For more information see Analyzing Invoices and Receipts.
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Detecting and analyzing text in government identity documents. For more information see Analyzing Identity Documents.
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Detecting and analyzing text in lending documents. For more information see Using Analyze Lending for Document Classification and Extraction.
Amazon Textract provides you with synchronous operations for processing single-page documents with near real-time responses. For more information, see Processing Documents with Synchronous Operations. Amazon Textract also provides asynchronous operations that you can use to process larger, multipage documents. Asynchronous responses aren't in real time. For more information, see Processing Documents with Asynchronous Operations.
Amazon Textract provides you with a workflow to automatically classify lending document pages and route them to existing solutions. For more information see Using Analyze Lending for Document Classification and Extraction.
When an Amazon Textract operation processes a document, the results are returned in an
array of Block objects or an array of ExpenseDocument objects. Both objects contain information that's
detected about items, including their location on the document and their relationship to
other items on the document. For more information, see Amazon Textract Response
Objects. For examples that show how to use Block objects, see Tutorials.
For information regarding the results returned by Analyze Lending, see Analyze Lending Response Objects .
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