Amazon Textract

2023/10/12 - 12 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds 9 new APIs for adapter and adapter version management, 3 new APIs for tagging, and updates AnalyzeDocument and StartDocumentAnalysis API parameters for using adapters.

2023/09/27 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds new feature - Layout to Analyze Document API which can automatically extract layout elements such as titles, paragraphs, headers, section headers, lists, page numbers, footers, table areas, key-value areas and figure areas and order the elements as a human would read.

2023/03/23 - 8 updated api methods

Changes   The AnalyzeDocument - Tables feature adds support for new elements in the API: table titles, footers, section titles, summary cells/tables, and table type.

2022/11/28 - 3 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for classifying and splitting lending documents by type, and extracting information by using the Analyze Lending APIs. This release also includes support for summarized information of the processed lending document package, in addition to per document results.

2022/11/17 - 8 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for specifying and extracting information from documents using the Signatures feature within Analyze Document API

2022/11/01 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add ocr results in AnalyzeIDResponse as blocks

2022/10/31 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release introduces additional support for 30+ normalized fields such as vendor address and currency. It also includes OCR output in the response and accuracy improvements for the already supported fields in previous version

2022/04/19 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for specifying and extracting information from documents using the Queries feature within Analyze Document API

2022/02/23 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for merged cells and column header for table response.

2021/11/29 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for synchronously analyzing identity documents through a new API: AnalyzeID

2021/10/27 - 2 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for asynchronously analyzing invoice and receipt documents through two new APIs: StartExpenseAnalysis and GetExpenseAnalysis

2021/07/26 - 1 new api methods

Changes   Adds support for AnalyzeExpense, a new API to extract relevant data such as contact information, items purchased, and vendor name, from almost any invoice or receipt without the need for any templates or configuration.

2020/11/13 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   AWS Textract now allows customers to specify their own KMS key to be used for asynchronous jobs output results, AWS Textract now also recognizes handwritten text from English documents.

2020/09/24 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   AWS Textract now supports output results for asynchronous jobs to customer specified s3 bucket.

2019/12/03 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This SDK Release introduces Amazon Augmented AI support for Amazon Textract AnalyzeDocument API. Image byte payloads for synchronous operations have increased from 5 MB to 10 MB.

2019/04/24 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for checkbox also known as SELECTION_ELEMENT in Amazon Textract.

2019/03/05 - 6 new api methods

Changes   This release is intended ONLY for customers that are officially part of the Amazon Textract Preview program. If you are not officially part of the Amazon Textract program THIS WILL NOT WORK. Our two main regions for Amazon Textract Preview are N. Virginia and Dublin. Also some members have been added to Oregon and Ohio. If you are outside of any of these AWS regions, Amazon Textract Preview definitely will not work. If you would like to be part of the Amazon Textract program, you can officially request sign up here - https://pages.awscloud.com/textract-preview.html. To set expectations appropriately, we are aiming to admit new preview participants once a week until General Availability.