AWS launches Textract, machine learning for text and data extraction

Need to extract content from a document quickly and automatically? Amazon today announced the general availability of Textract, a cloud-hosted and fully managed service that uses machine learning to parse data tables, forms, and whole pages for text and data. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) regions and will expand to additional regions in the coming year. Textract is more capable than your average optical character recognition system. From files stored in an Amazon S3 bucket, it's able to suss out the contents of fields and tables and the context in which this information is presented, like names and social security numbers in tax forms or totals from photographed receipts.