Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically extract text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents such as PDFs. With Amazon Textract, you pay only for what you use. There are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments. Amazon Textract charges only for pages processed whether you extract text, text with tables, and/or form data. See the FAQ for additional details about pages and acceptable use of Textract.
Amazon Textract has three different APIs: Detect Document Text API, Analyze Document API, and Analyze Expense API.
Detect Document Text API uses OCR technology to extract text and handwriting from a provided document. In the US West (Oregon) region, you pay $0.0015 per page for the first one million pages and $0.0006 per page for over one million pages.
Analyze Document API has two functions, forms and tables, with different pricing levels.
- Analyze Document API for forms uses OCR technology to extract text and handwriting from a provided document. It also extracts data such as key-value pairs (“First Name” and associated value: “Jane Smith”). In the US West (Oregon) region, you pay $0.05 per page for the first one million pages and $0.04 per page for over one million pages.
- Analyze Document API for tables uses OCR technology to extract text and handwriting from a provided document. It also extracts tabular or tables data organized in columns and rows. In the US West (Oregon) region, you pay $0.015 per page for the first one million pages and $0.01 per page for over one million pages.
Free Tier
As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Textract for free. The Free Tier lasts three months, and new AWS customers can analyze up to 1,000 pages per month using the Detect Document Text API and up to 100 pages per month using the Analyze Document API or Analyze Expense API.
Amazon Textract API pricing
Detect Document Text API (OCR)
Analyze Document API for pages with tables
*Tables are collections of related data that are visually organized into columns and rows. For example, an operational log that tracks the daily output of a factory.
Analyze Document API for pages with forms
*Forms are a collection of independent keys and values that happen to be on the same page (e.g. W2).
Analyze Document API for pages with tables and forms
Analyze Expense API for invoices and receipts
Pricing examples outside the free tier
Pricing example 1 - Detect Document Text API
Let’s assume you want to extract the text from 100,000 pages of research reports using the Detect Document Text API. The pricing per page in US West (Oregon) region for the first one million pages is $0.0015, so for processing 100,000 pages the total cost per month would be $150. See the calculation below:
Total pages processed = 100,000
Price per page = $0.0015
Total charge per month = $0.0015*100,000 = $150
Pricing example 2 - Detect Document Text API
Let’s assume you want to extract the text from two million pages of research reports using the Detect Document Text API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for the first one million pages is $0.0015, and pages after one million are $0.0006 so for processing two million pages the total cost would be $2,100. See the calculation below:
Total pages processed = 2,000,000
Price per page = $0.0015 for first 1 million and $0.0006 for pages after 1 million
Total charge per month = $0.0015*1,000,000 + $0.0006 * 1,000,000 = $1,500 + $600 = $2,100
Pricing example 3 - Analyze Document API – Forms and Tables
Let’s assume you want to extract the text and structured data from 5,000 pages of tax forms using the Analyze Document API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages with tables is $0.015, and with forms is $0.05, for a total of $325. See the calculation below:
Total pages processed = 5,000 pages
Price for page with table = $0.015
Price for page with form (key-value pair) = $0.05
Total charge = $0.015*5,000 + $0.05 *5,000 = $75 + $250 = $325
Pricing example 4 - Analyze Document API – Forms and Tables
Let’s assume you want to extract text, forms, and tables from two million pages of tax forms using the Analyze Document API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages with tables is $0.015, and $0.01 per page after one million pages. Pages with forms is $0.05 for one million pages, and $0.04 per page after one million. The total cost would be $115,000. See the calculation below:
Total pages processed = 2,000,000 pages
Price for page with table = $0.015 for the first one million and $0.01 for the next one million
Price for page with form (key-value pair) = $0.05 for the first 1 million and $0.04 for the next 1 million
Total charge = $0.015*1,000,000 + $0.01*1,000,000 + $0.05*1,000,000 + $0.04*1,000,000 = $15,000 + $10,000 + 50,000 + 40,000 = $115,000
Pricing example 5 - Analyze Expense API
Let’s assume you want to extract data from 100,000 invoices using the Analyze Expense API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for 1 million pages is $0.01 and you process 100,000 invoices. The total cost would be $1,000. See the calculation below:
Total pages processed = 100,000
Price per page = $0.01
Total charge per month = $0.01*100,000 = $1,000
Pricing example 6 - Analyze Expense API
Let’s assume you want to extract data from 1,500,000 invoices using the Analyze Expense API. The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages is $0.01 per page and $0.008 per page after one million. The total cost would be $14,000. See the calculation below:
Total pages processed = 1,500,000
Price per page = $0.01 for the first 1 million and $0.008 for the next 500,000
Total charge per month = $0.01 * 1,000,000 + $0.008 * 500,000 = $14,000
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