New Service: Support for AWS Textract

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Description

Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables. Today, many companies manually extract data from scanned documents such as PDFs, images, tables, and forms, or through simple OCR software that requires manual configuration (which often must be updated when the form changes). To overcome these manual and expensive processes, Textract uses ML to read and process any type of document, accurately extracting text, handwriting, tables, and other data with no manual effort. You can quickly automate document processing and act on the information extracted, whether you’re automating loans processing or extracting information from invoices and receipts. Textract can extract the data in minutes instead of hours or days. Additionally, you can add human reviews with Amazon Augmented AI to provide oversight of your models and check sensitive data.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_textract_document_analysis
• aws_textract_expense_analysis
• aws_textract_document_text_detection

Potential Terraform Configuration

References

• AWS Textract
• Textract API

[johnsonaj]

After review of the service and the ability of the API, it was determined that this does not fit the Terraform model. This service is solely for performing an action instead of creating a resource that can be managed. Additionally, it lacks the ability to be queried longterm and would limit Terraform's ability to track a state.

Guidelines for Infrastructure as code suitability

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