Category: Amazon Textract

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that Amazon Textract, a machine learning service that quickly and easily extracts text and data from forms and tables in scanned documents, is now eligible for healthcare and life science workloads that require HIPAA compliance. This launch builds upon the existing portfolio of AWS artificial intelligence services that are […]

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. This allows you to use Amazon Textract to instantly “read” virtually any type […]

July 2025: Post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Documents are a primary tool for record keeping, communication, collaboration, and transactions across many industries, including financial, medical, legal, and real estate. The millions of mortgage applications and hundreds of millions of W2 tax forms processed each year are just a few examples of such documents. […]