An insurer receives claim forms as scanned PDFs. It needs the printed values out of the form's fields — policy number, date, amount — as structured text it can put into a database. The team has no machine learning expertise and does not want to train anything. Which service should it start with?
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), objective 3. Cloud technology and services medium
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Correct Amazon Textract
Correct. Textract is the pre-trained service for documents specifically: it extracts text, and it understands the structure of forms and tables, which is what turns a scan into key-value pairs rather than a wall of words.
Not correct Amazon Rekognition
Wrong service for documents. Rekognition analyses images and video — objects, scenes, faces, moderation. It can detect text in an image, but recovering a form's field structure is what Textract is built for.
Not correct Amazon Comprehend
Wrong at this stage, and it is the natural next step rather than the first one. Comprehend does natural language processing — entities, key phrases, sentiment, language — on text you already have. Something must produce the text first.
Not correct Amazon SageMaker
Wrong for a team with no machine learning staff. SageMaker is the platform for building, training and deploying your own models. It is the right answer when nothing pre-trained fits, which is not the case for reading a form.
Why
Sort the pre-trained artificial intelligence services by what goes in. Images and video: Rekognition. Documents and scans: Textract. Text: Comprehend for analysis, Translate for languages. Speech: Transcribe turns speech into text, Polly turns text into speech. Conversations: Lex. Enterprise search: Kendra. SageMaker sits underneath all of them as the build-your-own option. The habit worth forming is to reach for a pre-trained service first and only build a model when the catalogue has no answer.
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- AWS exam guide task statement 3.7
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