Amazon says no machine learning expertise is needed to use the to use the service, which automatically extracts text and data from tables or forms.

AWS' Textract, which leverages machine learning algorithms to detect and extract text and data from a range of document types, is now generally available.

Jassy said that forms also often change, and if you are using a template as a workaround for OCR’s lack of intelligence, the template breaks if you move anything. To fix that, Textract is smart ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday added new artificial intelligence (AI) features to some of its services including Textract, Transcribe, Kendra, CodeWhisperer, and HealthLake.