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Intelligent Document Processing with AWS AI/ML

By : Sonali Sahu
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Intelligent Document Processing with AWS AI/ML

By: Sonali Sahu

Overview of this book

With the volume of data growing exponentially in this digital era, it has become paramount for professionals to process this data in an accelerated and cost-effective manner to get value out of it. Data that organizations receive is usually in raw document format, and being able to process these documents is critical to meeting growing business needs. This book is a comprehensive guide to helping you get to grips with AI/ML fundamentals and their application in document processing use cases. You’ll begin by understanding the challenges faced in legacy document processing and discover how you can build end-to-end document processing pipelines with AWS AI services. As you advance, you'll get hands-on experience with popular Python libraries to process and extract insights from documents. This book starts with the basics, taking you through real industry use cases for document processing to deliver value-based care in the healthcare industry and accelerate loan application processing in the financial industry. Throughout the chapters, you'll find out how to apply your skillset to solve practical problems. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll have mastered the fundamentals of document processing with machine learning through practical implementation.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Accurate Extraction of Documents and Categorization
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Part 2: Enrichment of Data and Post-Processing of Data
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Part 3: Intelligent Document Processing in Industry Use Cases

Using Amazon Textract for the accurate extraction of different types of documents

To build an IDP pipeline, we need an AI service such as Amazon Textract to accurately extract printed as well as handwritten text from any type of document. Now, let’s look into the features of Amazon Textract for accurate document extraction.

Introducing Amazon Textract

Amazon Textract is a fully managed AI/machine learning (ML) service, built with pre-trained models for accurate document extraction. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple OCR and can extract data from any type of document accurately. To leverage Textract, no ML experience is required; you can call into its application programming interfaces (APIs) to leverage the pre-trained ML model behind the scenes.

Amazon Textract provides APIs that you can call through the serverless environment without the need to manage any kind of infrastructure. Once the document content is extracted, you can proceed to the subsequent stages of the...