Amazon Textract

What Amazon Textract does

• Text and handwriting detection. Detects printed text and handwriting in scanned documents via Detect Document Text.
• Forms and tables analysis. Analyze Document extracts form key-value data and tables.
• Queries. Analyze Document supports queries and custom queries for targeted extraction.
• Expense and ID analysis. Separate Analyze Expense and Analyze ID APIs, plus Analyze Lending.

Who it’s for

• Developers adding OCR and form extraction to AWS applications
• Finance and lending teams processing invoices and loan documents
• Healthcare back offices digitizing intake and claims forms

Amazon Textract pricing

Pay per page, e.g. $0.0015 text detection, $0.015 tables, $0.05 forms (US West Oregon); 3-month free tier for new AWS customers

As listed on November 9, 2026. Check aws.amazon.com for current prices.

Things to know

• Free tier is for new AWS customers for three months only
• Custom Queries have no free tier
• Billed per page; forms analysis costs more than plain text detection

Quick answers

What is Amazon Textract?

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service from Amazon Web Services that extracts text, handwriting, layout elements and data from scanned documents.

Is Amazon Textract free?

Amazon Textract is billed by usage. (As listed on November 9, 2026.)

Who makes Amazon Textract?

Amazon Textract is made by Amazon Web Services.

Where can you use Amazon Textract?

Amazon Textract is available on an API for developers.

What are some alternatives to Amazon Textract?

Other tools filed in the same section include AI2sql, Julius AI and Akkio.

Tags

#ocr#document-extraction#aws#forms#tables#api