Amazon Textract Reviews

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Amazon Textract mentions (35)

• Ask HN: How to OCR a PDF and preserve whitespace?

  Did you try textract? https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ In my experience it works amazingly well with columns / tabulated content. - Source: Hacker News / 29 days ago

• Classifying and Extracting Data using Amazon Textract

  Amazon Textract has an Analyze Lending API for evaluating and categorizing the documents contained in mortgage loan application packages, as well as extracting the data they contain. The new API can assist in processing applications quicker and with minimal errors, therefore improving the end-customer experience and lowering operational costs. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: OCR for 100 year old (German) handwritten cursive script?

  You could try something like https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ or https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting. Both have support for modern handwriting. I don't know if it will work with a script written a century ago though. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Deploy and Test AWS Step Functions with Node.js

  Create a main.js file inside the look-for-github-profile-step project folder. Implement the code that parses the resume and plucks the GitHub profile URL. This step function is responsible for using Textract (an AI service from AWS) and passing state back to the state machine. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Automate invoice processing using AWS Textract

  The primary challenge in processing invoices is extracting the relevant data. This is where Amazon Textract can help. It is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses advanced Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to automatically extract structured and unstructured data from scanned documents, images, and PDF files. It can detect typed and handwritten text in different types of documents including... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

MIT App Inventor mentions (40)

• Looking for savable graphing methods

  First thought, play with MIT App Inventor https://appinventor.mit.edu/, they have dedicated blocks for graphing and cross-platform implementations of Bluetooth for Android and iOS. The data format is still up to you. Source: about 1 year ago

• App for recording time periods

  Or you could go to https://appinventor.mit.edu/ and design your own custom app (no widget, though). Source: about 1 year ago

• Easiest code to learn to make an app?

  If you want to make a mobile app you could try https://appinventor.mit.edu/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Trying to have a Ubuntu server I can turn on from my phone, log in as user, and start the Docker containers for my server. How do I automate this process?

  Maybe a raspberry pi that's on 24/7 connected to wifi and use that to send the wake over lan signal to the server? Arduino on the power pins also works, I did something quite similar but with a Bluetooth board, the code was really simple I just made an Android app with MIT app inventor that sent a signal to the hc_05 bt board, once the Arduino received that signal it shorted the power pin to 5v for half a second... Source: over 1 year ago

• Am searching for a partner who can help me with an app idea

  If your idea isn't complicated, have a look at MIT App Inventor. It literally is, drag-and-drop. That should get you started. Source: over 1 year ago