Textract

intermediate
ai & ml
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Definition

AWS service that extracts text and data from documents using machine learning. Like having an AI assistant that can read and understand any document format.

Real-World Example

Insurance companies use Textract to automatically extract information from claim forms and medical records.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

All services extract text from documents using ML. Textract, Azure Document Intelligence, and GCP Document AI focus on document OCR plus structured data extraction (forms/tables). OCI commonly covers OCR via Vision; document-structure extraction depends on OCI Document Understanding availability in your region.

AWS
Amazon Textract
AZ
Azure AI Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer)
GCP
Document AI
OCI
OCI AI Vision (Text Detection) and OCI Document Understanding (if available in-region)

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