Extract text from scanned receipts stored in Amazon S3

Pulls a receipt image from Amazon S3 and uses AWS Textract to turn it into readable, searchable text for your records.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
General Automation
Connects
Amazon S3AWS Textract

The problem it solves

If your receipts or scanned documents sit in cloud storage as images, you can't search or copy the text from them without opening each one and typing it out. That makes it hard to pull numbers into reports or expense records.

Who it fits

A business that stores scanned receipts or documents in Amazon S3 and needs the text out of them.

How it works

  1. The automation is run against a receipt file stored in Amazon S3
  2. The file is downloaded from S3
  3. AWS Textract reads the image and extracts the text
  4. The extracted text is returned ready to use
What you get

Receipts turned into usable text on demand

Turn scanned receipts sitting in storage into clean, searchable text whenever you need it.

What you get

The extracted text content of a scanned receipt or document.

What you need

An AWS account with S3 and Textract access.

We can build this. But should you?

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