A firm needs to (a) extract text and tables from scanned PDF invoices and (b) detect sentiment and entities in the extracted text. Which two services map to these jobs?
A.Amazon Comprehend for extraction, Textract for sentiment
Roles reversed.
B.Amazon Textract for OCR extraction, Amazon Comprehend for sentiment/entities
Correct. Document→text = Textract; text→insights = Comprehend.
C.Amazon Rekognition for both
Rekognition analyzes images/video, not document text structure.
D.Amazon Transcribe for both
Transcribe converts audio to text, not documents or sentiment.
Why this answer
Textract is OCR + document structure extraction (forms, tables) from scans; Comprehend is NLP analysis — sentiment, entities, topics — on existing text. Rekognition is image/video; Transcribe is speech-to-text.
Correct answer: B · Last reviewed 2026-10-28
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