--- title: "AWS Textract Integration" description: "Extract text, forms, tables, and query answers from documents with Amazon Textract. Runs synchronous OCR for single pages and asynchronous jobs for multi-page PDFs in S3." url: https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/aws-textract date_modified: 2026-08-07T17:20:23-07:00 --- # AWS Textract [AI](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/category/ai-llms) Extract text, forms, tables, and query answers from documents with Amazon Textract. Runs synchronous OCR for single pages and asynchronous jobs for multi-page PDFs in S3. [Verified](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/verified "What does verified mean?") · 8 actions · API key · available [AWS Textract website](https://aws.amazon.com/) · [Platform Documentation](https://aws.amazon.com/textract/) · Capability data verified 2026-07-14 1. Vendor invoice PDF lands in the intake folder 2. Agent runs Analyze Document to pull fields, tables, and totals 3. Agent checks the confidence scores on each extracted field 4. Agent matches the vendor and total against the purchase order 5. Agent creates the bill record with the extracted line items 6. AP team gets a summary of the processed invoice 7. Low-confidence fields or a PO mismatch route to AP before the bill posts ## What This Integration Enables Textract reads documents structurally, not just as a wall of text. It pulls fields and their values, keeps tables as rows and columns, and can answer targeted questions like the invoice total or the due date. For multi-page PDFs it runs asynchronous jobs against S3 and returns the result when the job completes. Extraction is only half the job. The other half is knowing when the extraction is good enough to trust. Textract returns a confidence score per field, and an orchestration layer uses those scores to decide what posts automatically and what a person checks first. FlowRunner is built for that layer, so document processing scales without quietly writing a misread total into your books. ### Without FlowRunner **Invoices typed by hand**: Staff key vendor, amount, and line items from every PDF **Tables lost in OCR**: Line-item tables collapse into unusable text **No confidence signal**: A misread digit posts to the ledger unnoticed ### With FlowRunner **Fields extracted automatically**: Vendor, totals, and line items pulled from the PDF **Tables kept intact**: Line-item tables come back as structured rows **Low-confidence flagged**: Uncertain fields are routed to a person before posting ## Use Case Scenarios ### Invoice Processing Vendor invoices arrive as PDFs. The agent runs Analyze Document to extract the vendor, totals, and line-item table, checks the confidence on each field, and matches the invoice against its purchase order. Clean, matched invoices create a bill record automatically. Anything with a low-confidence field or a PO mismatch is routed to AP. The team handles exceptions instead of typing every invoice. ### Form Digitization Paper forms are scanned into multi-page PDFs. The agent starts an asynchronous Textract job against the file in S3, waits for completion, and maps the extracted fields to a record. Forms that extract cleanly flow straight into the system. Forms with unreadable sections are held for a person, so no record is created from a bad scan. ### Document Query at Intake Rather than extract an entire contract, the agent asks Textract specific questions: the effective date, the renewal term, the total value. It records the answers and their confidence. High-confidence answers populate the record; anything uncertain is surfaced to the person who owns the document, so the flow never guesses on a key term. ## Human-in-Loop Highlight The danger in document automation is not a failed extraction; it is a confident-looking wrong one. Textract returns a confidence score with every field, and FlowRunner uses it to draw the line. When a field falls below the threshold or an extracted total does not match its purchase order, the agent routes the document through a [human-in-the-loop](https://flowrunner.ai/concepts/human-in-the-loop) step: it pauses, shows the person the original document alongside the extracted value, and waits. They correct or confirm. The clean documents post themselves; the uncertain ones get a human read before they touch the ledger. Agent processes routinely Detects exception requiring judgment Clear match Continues automatically Ambiguous Routes to human via preferred channel Human decides Agent resumes with decision ## Agent Capabilities 8 actions ### Text Detection 1 - **Detect Document Text** Runs synchronous OCR on a single-page image (JPEG, PNG, or TIFF) or single-page PDF and returns every detected line and word as Textract Block objects. ### Document Analysis 3 - **Analyze Document** Runs synchronous document analysis to extract structured data using one or more feature types: FORMS (key-value pairs), TABLES (rows and cells), QUERIES (natural-language questions answered from the document), SIGNATURES (signature locations), and LAYOUT (reading order and layout elements). - **Analyze Expense** Synchronously analyzes an invoice or receipt and extracts financially relevant data. Supply the document as a FlowRunner file URL (single page, up to ~5 MB) or an S3 object. - **Analyze ID** Synchronously analyzes identity documents such as U. S. ### Asynchronous 4 - **Start Document Text Detection** Starts an asynchronous OCR job over a document stored in Amazon S3 (used for multi-page PDFs and TIFFs, up to 500 MB / 3000 pages). - **Get Document Text Detection** Retrieves the results of an asynchronous OCR job started by Start Document Text Detection. - **Start Document Analysis** Starts an asynchronous document analysis job over a document stored in Amazon S3 (used for multi-page PDFs and TIFFs, up to 500 MB / 3000 pages). - **Get Document Analysis** Retrieves the results of an asynchronous document analysis job started by Start Document Analysis. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What can FlowRunner do with AWS Textract? FlowRunner agents can run Detect Document Text, Analyze Document, and Analyze Expense in AWS Textract, plus 5 more actions. ### Does connecting AWS Textract to FlowRunner require OAuth? No. AWS Textract connects to FlowRunner with an API key, no OAuth flow required. ### Can AWS Textract trigger a FlowRunner workflow automatically? AWS Textract doesn't currently expose triggers in FlowRunner. It connects as an action step inside workflows started by another trigger. **Work at AWS Textract?** This integration exposes AWS Textract to AI agents on every FlowRunner plan, including through MCP, at no cost to you. [See what FlowRunner offers integration partners](https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/partners), including how to keep this page current. --- Markdown version of https://flowrunner.ai/integrations/aws-textract. Site index: https://flowrunner.ai/llms.txt