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.

Companies that rely on optical character recognition (OCR) to digitize the content of printed forms may be interested in Textract, a new machine learning-based OCR service that just became available ...

Amazon Textract, a machine learning service that automatically extracts selected text and data from scanned documents, is now HIPAA-eligible, Amazon Web Services announced in a blog post Thursday.

Textract was first announced during the AWS re:Invent conference in November as one of several new machine learning services designed for use by people with no expertise in the subject.

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