Integration · Cloud and hosting
AI agents for Amazon Textract
Read text, tables, form fields and answers to questions out of scanned documents and images with Amazon Textract, pull totals and line items from invoices and receipts, and read identity documents.
- Actions
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- Read
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- Write
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Actions
What your agents can do in Amazon Textract
Read text, tables, form fields and answers to questions out of scanned documents and images with Amazon Textract, pull totals and line items from invoices and receipts, and read identity documents, from a file in Amazon S3 or sent inline, signed with an AWS access key.
Read 6
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Read the text of a document
Reads the printed and handwritten text of one image or single-page document.
Read tables, forms and answers
Analyzes one image or single-page document for what you ask.
Read an invoice or receipt
Pulls the fields of an invoice or receipt: ExpenseDocuments, each with SummaryFields.
Read an identity document
Reads a US driver's license or a passport: IdentityDocuments, each with IdentityDocumentFields such as FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, DATE_OF_BIRTH, DOCUMENT_NUMBER, EXPIRATION_DATE and ADDRESS.
Start analyzing a multi-page PDF
Starts analyzing a multi-page PDF or TIFF in S3 (up to 3,000 pages) in the background, for the same TABLES, FORMS, QUERIES, SIGNATURES and LAYOUT as "Read tables, forms and answers".
Get analysis results
Gets a background analysis: JobStatus (IN_PROGRESS, SUCCEEDED, FAILED or PARTIAL_SUCCESS) and, once done, its Blocks a page of up to 1,000 at a time with NextToken while more remain.
Write 0
Create, change or send.
This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.
Read only
Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in Amazon Textract but cannot change anything there.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Enter the sign-in details Amazon Textract gives you for its API.
What you enter
- Access key ID
- Secret access key
Settings
- Region
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Amazon Textract data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can read the text of a document, read tables, forms and answers or read an invoice or receipt in Amazon Textract, then answers with what it found.
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Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Amazon Textract and Slack: it can read the text of a document in Amazon Textract and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
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Run it as a workflow step
Add "Read the text of a document" to a workflow, and it runs in Amazon Textract the same way every time, with or without an agent.
Works well with
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FAQ
Amazon Textract and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Amazon Textract?
Yes. The Amazon Textract connector has 6 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Amazon Textract?
Enter the sign-in details Amazon Textract gives you for its API. You'll need: Access key ID and Secret access key. The connection also asks for: Region. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Amazon Textract without asking?
No. Every Amazon Textract action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.
Can I use Amazon Textract in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Amazon Textract action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Amazon Textract to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.