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 |
