Amazon Textract Review 2026
Amazon Textract — Textract's main selling point is price: $0.0015/page for basic text extraction is hard to beat. If you're on AWS, it plugs into S3 and Lambda cleanly with no servers to manage. Form and table extraction are solid. The downside is the same as every cloud-provider OCR tool: you need AWS expertise to set it up, it locks you in, and support costs extra. It also has fewer pre-built document processors than Google's equivalent.
Score Breakdown
Overview
Amazon Textract is the cheapest cloud OCR API at $0.0015/page for basic text extraction. If you're already on AWS, it plugs into S3 and Lambda with zero infrastructure management.
We tested Amazon Textract against our standard set: 50 invoices, 20 receipts, 10 bills of lading, and 10 bank statements. The mix includes clean digital PDFs, rough scans, and phone photos.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- ✓$0.0015/page for text extraction. Cheapest cloud OCR API we found
- ✓Plugs straight into S3, Lambda, and the rest of the AWS stack
- ✓Fully serverless. No infrastructure to manage or scale
Cons
- ✗Locks you into AWS. Moving to another cloud later is painful
- ✗Fewer pre-built document processors than Google Document AI
- ✗Decent support costs extra via AWS Business or Enterprise plans
Pricing
Amazon Textract starts at $0.0015/page. See our OCR Pricing Guide for a detailed comparison across all tools at different volume tiers.