Chapter 2: Introducing Amazon Textract
In the previous chapter, you read how businesses can harness the benefits of applying NLP to derive insights from text, and you were briefly introduced to the AWS ML stack. We will now provide a detailed introduction to Amazon Textract, along with do-it-yourself code samples and instructions. Amazon Textract is an AWS AI service that can be used to extract text from documents and images with little to no prior ML skills. But before we get to what Textract can do, we will first cover some of the challenges with document processing. Then we will cover how Textract can help in overcoming the challenges. We will also talk about the benefits of using Amazon Textract, along with its product features. Lastly, ...
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