Extracting Text, Handwriting, and Layout Elements Using Amazon Textract

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: 2 minutes and 26 seconds

Students: 20

Welcome to this lesson on using Amazon Textract, a cloud-based service that automates text and data extraction from printed text, handwriting, layout elements and data from any document.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will have an understanding of Amazon Textract, including:

The core capabilities and benefits
The differences between synchronous and asynchronous operations
How to customize output using custom queries
Best practices for document preparation and processing
Key security features and data protection methods
Basic logging and monitoring options for operations

Intended Audience

This lesson is designed for software developers, data analysts, and IT professionals looking to automate document processing and extract text and data from various document types using Amazon Textract.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should already have some basic working knowledge of building cloud solutions on the AWS platform.