AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 925

A company accepts enrollment applications on handwritten paper forms. The company uses a manual process to enter the form data into its backend systems.
The company wants to automate the process by scanning the forms and capturing the enrollment data from scanned PDF files.
Which AWS service should the company use to build this process?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Rekognition
• B. Amazon Textract
• C. Amazon Transcribe
• D. Amazon Comprehend

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Amazon Textract is specifically designed to automatically extract printed text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents like PDFs. Amazon Rekognition is used for analyzing images and videos, Amazon Transcribe converts audio speech to text, and Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing service. Therefore, Amazon Textract is the correct service for digitizing and capturing data from scanned enrollment forms.