Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Textract

Definition

A service that extracts text, tables, and form data directly from scanned documents or PDFs, going beyond traditional OCR by understanding document structure (key-value pairs, tables).

Exam context

In AIF-C01 (Domain 3) it is distinguished from generic OCR because it preserves form and table structure. Question: automating data extraction from scanned invoices while preserving table format → Amazon Textract.

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