{ "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. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-textract" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "boto3" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "amazon-textract-textractor" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Requests are signed with AWS Signature Version 4 using IAM credentials, long-lived access keys or temporary credentials from AWS STS. IAM identity policies use the `textract` action prefix, with resource-level permissions for adapters only and no service-specific condition keys. Access is self-serve with an AWS account. Asynchronous jobs read from S3, and completion notices need an SNS topic and an IAM role Textract can assume.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay per page with no minimum. In US East (N. Virginia), text detection is $1.50 per 1,000 pages for the first million a month and $0.60 after. 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. No Markdown or plain-text output and no way to leave out word blocks or geometry", "The guide's document history stops at 21 April 2022, and the newest Textract entry in AWS's What's New feed is dated 30 June 2025" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "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)", "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", "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. Virginia), first million pages a month. $0.60 after" }, { "item": "Document analysis, tables", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 15, "note": "US East (N. Virginia), first million pages. Same price for queries" }, { "item": "Document analysis, forms", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 50, "note": "US East (N. Virginia), first million pages. $65 with tables, $70 with tables and queries" }, { "item": "Layout", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 4, "note": "US East (N. Virginia). Free alongside forms, tables or queries" }, { "item": "Invoices and receipts", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 10, "note": "US East (N. Virginia), first million pages" }, { "item": "Identity documents", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 25, "note": "US East (N. Virginia), first 100,000 pages. $10 after" }, { "item": "Lending workflow", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 70, "note": "US East (N. Virginia), first million pages" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.", "domain": "amazonaws.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-08-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/", "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status", "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/document-history.html", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The AWS Customer Agreement (last updated 14 August 2026) governs use of the service, with other AWS entities as contracting party by account country.", "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.", "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": "2026-10-09T10:14:07.611791061Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 338, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 331, "p95ms24h": 356, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:07.611791061Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Unstructured API + MCP's 46.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Unstructured API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "unstructured", "name": "Unstructured API + MCP", "vendor": "Unstructured", "vendorUrl": "https://unstructured.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "document-extraction", "summary": "Unstructured Transform is a hosted parse and schema-extract API with an official hosted MCP server that partitions, chunks and embeds files.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unstructured", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unstructured.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unstructured.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/unstructured.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "unstructured-transform-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "unstructured-transform-client" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "unstructured" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "unstructured-client" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Transform API takes the key in an unstructured-api-key header. The hosted MCP uses OAuth, or the same key as a bearer token. Business customers get a separate API URL and one key per workspace from platform.unstructured.io or their dedicated instance.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Transform processes the first 10,000 pages free once per account, no card. After that pay as you go is $0.015 a page, billed monthly; requests fail past 10,000 pages until you add a card. Business (dedicated instance, VPC or multi-tenant SaaS) is custom. The open-source library is free and you pay only for your own compute (https://unstructured.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$15 / 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": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 15520, "npmWeekly": 385, "pypiWeekly": 612156, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.unstructured.io/transform/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.unstructured.io/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.unstructured/transform", "capabilities": [ "docs.parse", "docs.ocr", "docs.extract", "docs.tables", "docs.chunk" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "enterprise", "open-source", "self-hosted", "local" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 747, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 58, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 40, "reliability": 27, "schema": 51, "security": 42, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Apache-2.0 library partitions 45+ file types locally at no cost, tagged 11 times since 3 July. No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA.", "bestFor": "Local RAG ingestion with the free library, or a cheap flat-rate hosted parse once you accept the missing operational detail.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0 library partitions 45+ file types locally at no cost, tagged 11 times since 3 July", "Flat $0.015 a page after 10,000 free pages, no card to start", "Recovery guide with a code, status and action for nine errors, including Retry-After on 429", "Hosted MCP with OAuth" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA", "No OpenAPI file, no Transform changelog and no published MCP tool list", "Transform API takes nine file types, one file per request and no URLs", "Agent guide instructs AI agents not to look up or recommend the open-source library", "Library sends usage telemetry unless DO_NOT_TRACK or SCARF_NO_ANALYTICS is set" ], "agentNotes": [ "For local ingestion, `pip install \"unstructured[all-docs]\"` and call `partition()`; no key needed, and set `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` to stop telemetry", "Transform returns 202 with a Location header for long parses; poll it, then pass the parse `id` as `parse_id` to Extract", "Uploaded files expire after 24 hours; keep the original and re-upload on a 404", "Treat 409 `parse_expired` and 410 `result_expired` as a signal to rerun the parse, not to retry", "Check for an existing job ID before resubmitting, since there's no idempotency key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 58, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 40, "reliability": 27, "schema": 51, "security": 42, "transparency": 38 }, "provenanceScore": 64 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install \"unstructured[all-docs]\" # local library; or: pip install unstructured-transform-client", "http": "curl https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2/parse \\\n -H \"unstructured-api-key: $UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY\" -F \"input=@document.pdf\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --scope user unstructured-transform https://mcp.transform.unstructured.io" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/docs.parse", "tool": "https://letme.dev/unstructured" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Transform pay as you go", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 15, "note": "after the first 10,000 free pages" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Unstructured Technologies, Inc.", "domain": "unstructured.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://unstructured.io/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://unstructured.io/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "RDAP has no service for .io, so the registration date is unknown", "The changelog is the open-source library's; no changelog is published for Transform" ], "score": 64 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unstructured.json", "live": { "slug": "unstructured", "probe": { "target": "https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:31.175627415Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 587, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.96, "p50ms24h": 590, "p95ms24h": 625, "samples24h": 260, "samples30d": 2295, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Unstructured-IO/unstructured", "version": "0.27.22", "released": "2026-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:33:31.200923848Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.unstructured/transform", "version": "0.7.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T02:57:46.004536428Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "unstructured-transform-client", "version": "0.18.81", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:33:27.225744707Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "unstructured", "version": "0.27.22", "released": "2026-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:33:28.06741491Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "unstructured-client", "version": "0.46.2", "released": "2026-08-24", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:33:29.125658335Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "unstructured-transform-client", "version": "0.18.81", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:33:27.110630639Z" } ], "githubStars": 15549, "npmWeekly": 930, "pypiWeekly": 608, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://unstructured.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:04.052546012Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.unstructured.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:58.166016487Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "unstructured.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:08.539121016Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:51.867227866Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:51.867227866Z", "fingerprint": "3231cefe1d47" }, { "url": "https://unstructured.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:25:28.980822158Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d6877dc0b772" }, { "url": "https://unstructured.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:25:31.272866543Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1bd0fb908474" }, { "url": "https://unstructured.io/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:25:33.253814057Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "11aaded220fc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:31.175627415Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "Unstructured", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "b": "https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.unstructured/transform", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-08", "b": "2026-09-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-14", "b": "2026-07-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "2026-07-08", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.9M npm/wk, 208k PyPI/wk", "b": "16k stars, 385 npm/wk, 612k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Unstructured API + MCP's 46.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Unstructured API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Textract or Unstructured API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Amazon Textract needs an API key. Unstructured API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Amazon Textract and Unstructured API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Amazon Textract has a hosted endpoint at https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Unstructured API + MCP at https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call Amazon Textract and Unstructured API + MCP without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Amazon Textract. Unstructured API + MCP is open source (Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are Amazon Textract and Unstructured API + MCP open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 96 against 27", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 51", "Agent ergonomics, 70 against 58", "Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 42", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 51" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "amazon-textract", "watchFor": "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 58" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": 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Unstructured API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do docs parse.", "verdicts": { "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.", "unstructured": "Apache-2.0 library partitions 45+ file types locally at no cost, tagged 11 times since 3 July. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unstructured.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/unstructured.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 27\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 51\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 58\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 42\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 51\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### Unstructured API + MCP (D)\n\nGood for: Local RAG ingestion with the free library, or a cheap flat-rate hosted parse once you accept the missing operational detail.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Textract | Unstructured API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 96 | 27 | Amazon Textract +69 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 51 | Amazon Textract +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 58 | Amazon Textract +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 42 | Amazon Textract +32 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | Unstructured API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 80 | Unstructured API + MCP +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 51 | Amazon Textract +31 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.5 · BB** | **46.9 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Textract | Unstructured API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Unstructured |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\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 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.unstructured/transform` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-07-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-07-08 |\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 | 16k stars, 385 npm/wk, 612k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (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. 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**Unstructured API + MCP.** Apache-2.0 library partitions 45+ file types locally at no cost, tagged 11 times since 3 July. No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA.\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### Unstructured API + MCP\n\n1. For local ingestion, `pip install \"unstructured[all-docs]\"` and call `partition()`; no key needed, and set `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` to stop telemetry\n2. Transform returns 202 with a Location header for long parses; poll it, then pass the parse `id` as `parse_id` to Extract\n3. Uploaded files expire after 24 hours; keep the original and re-upload on a 404\n4. Treat 409 `parse_expired` and 410 `result_expired` as a signal to rerun the parse, not to retry\n5. Check for an existing job ID before resubmitting, since there's no idempotency key\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Textract or Unstructured API + MCP?\n\nAmazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Unstructured API + MCP's 46.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Unstructured API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Amazon Textract and Unstructured API + MCP need an API key?\n\nAmazon Textract needs an API key. Unstructured API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Amazon Textract and Unstructured API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Amazon Textract has a hosted endpoint at https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Unstructured API + MCP at https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2.\n\n### Are Amazon Textract and Unstructured API + MCP open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Amazon Textract. 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