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          "Text detection covers English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish only. Handwriting and queries are English only, and vertical text is not read",
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          "Fetch results within 7 days of starting a job, or set `OutputConfig` to write them to your own S3 bucket",
          "Request only the `FeatureTypes` you need. Forms cost $50 per 1,000 pages against $15 for tables or queries in US East",
          "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",
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          "Section 50 of the AWS Service Terms (last updated 1 October 2026) adds terms for AI services and names Amazon Textract. 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.",
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The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-08-31 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-09-25 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-09-03 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.9M npm/wk, 208k PyPI/wk | 769 stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4.5/5 (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. 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