Organizations regularly use PDF files to store and transfer different data types, including text, tables, and forms. However, it can be challenging to automatically aggregate and analyze data from different PDF files. For example, an organization's business application might regularly ingest different PDF files with an identical format but that users must individually open and read. This means that users find it difficult to generate useful insights from those PDF files and must manually extract relevant data and use third-party tools for further analysis.
On the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, Amazon Textract automatically extracts information (for example, printed text, forms, and tables) from PDF files and produces a JSON-formatted file that contains information from the original PDF file. During post-processing, the extracted data is stored in Amazon DynamoDB and you can generate business insights using analytics and visualizations in Amazon QuickSight.
