Document History for Amazon Textract
The following table describes important changes in each release of the Amazon Textract Developer Guide. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
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Latest documentation update: May 4th, 2022
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Queries Support Added | Amazon Textract now supports the use of queries alongside the AnalyzeDocument and GetDocumentAnalysis operations. | April 21, 2022 |
Confused Deputy | Have included pages detailing how to secure and prevent the Confused Deputy problem in Amazon Textract. | March 29, 2022 |
Update for table detection and analysis | Amazon Textract now supports merged cells and column headers for table responses. | March 16, 2022 |
Integrating code examples from AWS Docs SDK Code Examples GitHub repo | Amazon Textract guide now contains additional code examples. Renamed previous examples section to Tutorials. | January 30, 2022 |
One Page PDF Support | Amazon Textract now supports synchronous processing of single page PDF documents and supports PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images. | January 14, 2022 |
Identity Document Support | Amazon Textract now supports synchronous extraction of data from identity documents. | December 1, 2021 |
AnalyzeExpense Async and TIFF Support Added | Amazon Textract now supports the asynchronous analysis of invoice and receipt documents, as well as the use of TIFF files. | October 26, 2021 |
Privatelink Support Added | Amazon Textract now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Endpoints via AWS PrivateLink. | October 4, 2021 |
AnalyzeExpense Added | Amazon Textract now supports the synchronous analysis of invoice and receipt documents using the AnalyzeExpense API. | July 27, 2021 |
Text Detection Improvements | Amazon Textract now has accuracy enhancements for the handwriting extraction feature. | July 8, 2021 |
Form Extraction Update | Amazon Textract now has accuracy enhancements for the forms extraction feature. | June 23, 2021 |
Table Extraction Update | Amazon Textract now has accuracy enhancements for the detection of outer boundaries, row and column boundaries, and content of tables. | April 8, 2021 |
Augmented AI Support | Amazon Textract now supports Amazon Augmented AI for implementing human review. | December 3, 2019 |
New service and guide | Amazon Textract is now available for general use. | May 29, 2019 |
Support for selection elements | Amazon Textract can now detect selection elements (radio buttons and check boxes). | April 24, 2019 |
Release of Amazon Textract | This is the first release of the documentation for Amazon Textract. | November 28, 2018 |
