A finance team receives thousands of scanned invoices and needs to extract vendor names, line items, and totals into structured data. Which AWS service is purpose-built for this?
A.Amazon Comprehend
Comprehend does NLP on text — it doesn't OCR documents.
B.Amazon Textract
Correct. Textract handles document OCR plus structure extraction.
C.Amazon Rekognition
Rekognition detects objects/faces/labels in images, not document fields.
D.Amazon Transcribe
Transcribe converts audio to text, not documents.
Why this answer
Textract extracts text, tables, and form data from scanned documents — including purpose-built invoice/receipt analysis. Comprehend analyzes already-digital text; Rekognition is for images/video content; Transcribe is speech-to-text.
Correct answer: B · Last reviewed 2026-10-26
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