{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "amazon-textract", "name": "Amazon Textract", "vendor": "Amazon Web Services", "vendorUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/textract/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "document-extraction", "summary": "Amazon Textract is AWS's document OCR and analysis API. It reads printed and handwritten text from scans and PDFs and returns tables, form fields, layout elements, answers to queries, and invoice, receipt and identity document fields as JSON.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-textract.json", "repo": "https://github.com/aws/api-models-aws", "license": "Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. 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Document analysis is $15 for tables, $15 for queries, $50 for forms and $65 for tables with forms. Invoices and receipts are $10, identity documents $25 and the lending workflow $70. New AWS customers get three months of free pages, 1,000 a month for text detection and 100 a month for most analysis, and the Free Tier FAQ says most can sign up without a payment method (https://aws.amazon.com/textract/pricing/, https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/).", "priceSummary": "$1.50 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer guide, the API model or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 1871217, "pypiWeekly": 207553, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/what-is.html", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "docs.parse", "docs.ocr", "docs.extract", "docs.tables" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "async-jobs", "sla", "enterprise", "usage-priced" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 73.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 85, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 35, "reliability": 96, "schema": 82, "security": 74, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "IAM policies limit a credential to single operations, CloudTrail logs every call, and page prices start at $1.50 per 1,000 in US East. Multipage files need S3 and an asynchronous job. Text detection covers six languages. Under the AWS Service Terms AWS may store and use documents to improve the service unless an AI services opt-out policy is set.", "bestFor": "Teams already on AWS with documents in S3 that need OCR, tables and form fields at volume with IAM and CloudTrail controls, and for US invoices, receipts, identity documents and mortgage packages.", "strengths": [ "IAM policies grant single operations such as `textract:DetectDocumentText`, with temporary credentials, and CloudTrail logs every call without the document bytes or the response", "Text detection costs $1.50 per 1,000 pages in US East (N. Virginia) and $0.60 after a million pages a month, published without a login", "`ClientRequestToken` on the `Start` operations returns the same `JobId` for a repeated call, so a retried submission does not start a second job", "Every block carries a page number, a bounding box, a polygon and a confidence value from 0 to 100", "Amazon Textract SLA of 99.9 per cent monthly uptime per Region, and no Textract event on the AWS Health Dashboard since 10 July 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "AWS may store and use processed documents to improve the service, in other Regions too, unless an AI services opt-out policy is set on the AWS organisation", "Synchronous calls take one page of at most 10 MB. Multipage PDF and TIFF files must sit in S3 and run as asynchronous jobs", "Text detection covers English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish only. Handwriting and queries are English only, and vertical text is not read", "Output is a flat list of JSON blocks linked by ID. 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Neither carries Retry-After, and default quotas are 1 call a second in most Regions", "Set the AI services opt-out policy on the AWS organisation before sending customer documents" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 73.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 35, "reliability": 96, "schema": 82, "security": 74, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install boto3 # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-textract", "http": "aws textract detect-document-text \\\n --document '{\"S3Object\":{\"Bucket\":\"my-bucket\",\"Name\":\"scan.png\"}}' \\\n --region us-east-1" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/docs.parse", "tool": "https://letme.dev/amazon-textract" }, "sameCompany": [ "amazon-bedrock-customization", "agentcore-code-interpreter", "aws-end-user-messaging", "amazon-sns", "amazon-s3" ], "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Text detection", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1.5, "note": "US East (N. 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Section 50.3 lets AWS store and use processed content to improve the service unless the customer sets an AI services opt-out policy (https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/).", "The AWS Privacy Notice (last updated 18 May 2026) says it does not apply to content customers process with AWS services, which the agreement governs.", "https://aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt carries Expires 2026-09-24T16:25:03Z, so it had expired on 8 October 2026.", "The changelog link is the developer guide's document history, whose newest entry is 21 April 2022.", "RDAP for amazonaws.com gives a registration date of 2005-08-18. The API answers at textract.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com, while product and legal pages sit on aws.amazon.com." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.json", "live": { "slug": "amazon-textract", "probe": { "target": "https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:26:42.391543124Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 384, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 331, "p95ms24h": 356, "samples24h": 20, "samples30d": 20, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T09:26:42.391543124Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Extend API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Extend API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "extend", "name": "Extend API + MCP", "vendor": "Extend", "vendorUrl": "https://www.extend.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "document-extraction", "summary": "Hosted parse, extract, classify, split and PDF form-fill APIs with versioned processors, evaluation sets and workflows.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/extend", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/extend.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/extend.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/extend.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.extend.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "extend-ai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "extend-ai" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Bearer API key from the dashboard plus an x-extend-api-version header (current 2026-02-09). Test-mode keys hit an isolated environment. The hosted MCP uses OAuth, and the consent screen picks which workspaces and whether test, production or both are reachable.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go is self-serve with 10,000 free credits, then $0.0125 a credit, no contract or minimum. Scale is $500 a month with 50,000 credits and $0.01 a credit after that. Enterprise is custom. Performance modes cost 2 credits a page for Parse and Split, 3 for Extract and 1 for Classify. Light modes cost 0.5 for Parse and Split, 0.7 for Extract and 0.3 for Classify.Parse runs automatically before Extract, Split and Classify and is billed on top, so Performance Extract is 5 credits a page all in. CSV, plain text, RTF, Markdown and XML parse free, and advanced Excel is 3 credits per 1,000 cells. Review Agent adds 1 credit a page on extraction and 0.5 on classification, agentic text or table correction 1 each when triggered (https://docs.extend.ai/general/how-credits-work).", "priceSummary": "$25 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or per-call crypto payment in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 86, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 124329, "pypiWeekly": 59109, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.extend.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.extend.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.extend.ai/openapi/api-reference.json", "registryName": "ai.extend/extend", "capabilities": [ "docs.parse", "docs.ocr", "docs.extract", "docs.tables", "docs.chunk", "docs.classify" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "webhooks", "async-jobs", "enterprise", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 374, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 30, "reliability": 67, "schema": 87, "security": 43, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Hosted MCP with OAuth scoped to workspaces and to test or production, and a tools filter with nine groups. Parse is billed on top of Extract, Split and Classify, so Performance Extract costs 5 credits a page.", "bestFor": "Teams building production extraction with evaluation sets and versioned processors, and for agents that need to build or tune extractors as well as run them.", "strengths": [ "Hosted MCP with OAuth scoped to workspaces and to test or production, and a tools filter with nine groups", "Errors carry code, retryable, requestId and a docs link, and 429 guidance names Retry-After and jittered backoff", "Published credit prices and per-plan rate limits, 10,000 free credits to start", "OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and dated API versions with migration guides", "SDK releases every two to three weeks, TypeScript v2.3.0 on 2026-09-25" ], "weaknesses": [ "Parse is billed on top of Extract, Split and Classify, so Performance Extract costs 5 credits a page", "MCP loads every tool unless you pass ?tools=, including write and delete tools with no documented confirmation", "Three major-impact incidents on the status page since 25 August", "No security.txt, bug bounty, subprocessor list or published default retention period", "No published support period for older API versions" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect with `https://mcp.extend.ai/mcp?tools=parse,extract,files` to keep the schema small", "Every MCP call names a workspace and TEST or PRODUCTION; 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/extend.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/extend.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Textract (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams already on AWS with documents in S3 that need OCR, tables and form fields at volume with IAM and CloudTrail controls, and for US invoices, receipts, identity documents and mortgage packages.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 96 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 43\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 67\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: AWS may store and use processed documents to improve the service, in other Regions too, unless an AI services opt-out policy is set on the AWS organisation\n\n### Extend API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Teams building production extraction with evaluation sets and versioned processors, and for agents that need to build or tune extractors as well as run them.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 82\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 58\n\nWatch for: Parse is billed on top of Extract, Split and Classify, so Performance Extract costs 5 credits a page\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Textract | Extend API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 96 | 67 | Amazon Textract +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 87 | Extend API + MCP +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 68 | Amazon Textract +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 43 | Amazon Textract +31 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Amazon Textract +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 82 | Extend API + MCP +24 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 67 | Amazon Textract +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.5 · BB** | **62.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Textract | Extend API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Extend |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.extend.ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for docs parse | not published | $6.25 per 1,000 pages |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 86 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.extend/extend` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-25 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-09-14 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-09-14 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.9M npm/wk, 208k PyPI/wk | 124k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Textract.** IAM policies limit a credential to single operations, CloudTrail logs every call, and page prices start at $1.50 per 1,000 in US East. Multipage files need S3 and an asynchronous job. Text detection covers six languages. Under the AWS Service Terms AWS may store and use documents to improve the service unless an AI services opt-out policy is set.\n\n**Extend API + MCP.** Hosted MCP with OAuth scoped to workspaces and to test or production, and a tools filter with nine groups. Parse is billed on top of Extract, Split and Classify, so Performance Extract costs 5 credits a page.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Textract\n\n1. Sign with SigV4 for service `textract` at `textract.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com`, or call `aws textract detect-document-text`. The AWS CLI can't send image bytes, so reference an S3 object\n2. Use `StartDocumentTextDetection` or `StartDocumentAnalysis` for any PDF or TIFF of more than one page, pass a `ClientRequestToken`, then page `Get` calls with `NextToken` (1,000 blocks at most each)\n3. Fetch results within 7 days of starting a job, or set `OutputConfig` to write them to your own S3 bucket\n4. Request only the `FeatureTypes` you need. Forms cost $50 per 1,000 pages against $15 for tables or queries in US East\n5. Back off on `ProvisionedThroughputExceededException` (HTTP 400) and `ThrottlingException` (HTTP 500). Neither carries Retry-After, and default quotas are 1 call a second in most Regions\n6. Set the AI services opt-out policy on the AWS organisation before sending customer documents\n\n### Extend API + MCP\n\n1. Connect with `https://mcp.extend.ai/mcp?tools=parse,extract,files` to keep the schema small\n2. Every MCP call names a workspace and TEST or PRODUCTION; start in TEST\n3. Read `retryable` on an error before retrying, and honour `Retry-After` on a 429\n4. Budget 5 credits a page for Performance Extract, since the parse step is billed on top\n5. Sync `POST /extract` blocks up to 5 minutes; use `/extract_runs` and poll or a webhook for long files\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Textract or Extend API + MCP?\n\nAmazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Extend API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Extend API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Amazon Textract and Extend API + MCP need an API key?\n\nAmazon Textract needs an API key. Extend API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Amazon Textract and Extend API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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