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Amazon Textract AnalyzeExpense
What it is
Amazon Textract AnalyzeExpense is an API and web service that extracts financial information from invoices and receipts. Results can include grouped line items and summary fields such as purchased items, prices, receipt headers, and vendor names. The API can normalize field names and column headers to help applications compare information across documents. It can also recognize a vendor from a logo and extract items, quantities, or prices when documents lack labels or column headings. Submit documents as image bytes or an Amazon S3 object. AWS advises using PDF, JPG, or PNG files, and invoice and receipt processing is English only. AnalyzeExpense processes requests synchronously; asynchronous analysis uses StartExpenseAnalysis and GetExpenseAnalysis. The listed rate is $0.01 per page for the first million pages per month in US West (Oregon), then $0.008 per page, with custom high-volume pricing available. New AWS customers can use the Free Tier for three months, up to 100 pages per month. AWS describes encryption in transit and at rest and offers an Organizations opt-out policy for use of inputs to improve Textract and related AI technologies.
For and against
For
- Returns line items and summary fields.
- Can extract unlabeled items, quantities, and prices.
- Accepts image bytes or Amazon S3 objects.
- Free Tier includes up to 100 pages monthly for three months.
- Supports asynchronous analysis through named API operations.
Against
- Invoice and receipt processing is English only.
- Supported formats are PDF, JPG, and PNG.
- No free plan is listed.
- Inputs may be used to improve Textract unless opted out.
The verdict
AnalyzeExpense extracts structured financial details and supports both synchronous and asynchronous workflows. Consider its English-only document processing and per-page pricing when choosing it.
Who it suits
This service suits teams that need to extract and normalize invoice or receipt data for downstream applications. It is intended for English-language PDF, JPG, or PNG documents.
Plans and prices
AWS Free Tier — Analyze Expense
Analyze Expense API · 100 pages/month · no free tier for Custom Queries
Read 15 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Analyze Expense API — first 1 million pages
Analyze Expense invoices and receipts · OCR included
Read 15 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Analyze Expense API — over 1 million pages
Analyze Expense invoices and receipts · OCR included
Read 15 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
AWS Free Tier
Analyze Expense API: up to 100 pages per month
Read 2 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Analyze Expense API
Pay per page processed · high-volume custom pricing available
Read 2 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
On the record
- Access controls and monitoring
- Textract security documentation covers IAM, CloudTrail logging and monitoring, data protection, resilience, and VPC endpoints.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- API surface
- The public API includes AnalyzeExpense, StartExpenseAnalysis, GetExpenseAnalysis, AnalyzeDocument, AnalyzeID, AnalyzeLending, adapter-management and text-detection operations.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Asynchronous expense processing
- StartExpenseAnalysis begins asynchronous invoice or receipt processing and GetExpenseAnalysis retrieves results after completion.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- CLI and console
- Textract can be used through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI and API.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- AWS states that Textract is covered by HIPAA, SOC, ISO and PCI compliance programs, subject to applicable conditions.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Custom Queries
- Custom Queries adapters can be trained from as few as ten annotated sample documents in the AWS Console.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment model
- Textract is delivered as an AWS-hosted service accessed through regional HTTPS endpoints; AWS does not provide a self-hosted Textract server.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- AWS documentation includes a conceptual Developer Guide, detailed API Reference, getting-started procedures, quotas, IAM, encryption and code examples.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Expense analysis
- AnalyzeExpense synchronously analyzes invoices and receipts and returns line-item groups and summary fields in JSON.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Extracted data
- Results include line item groups and summary fields, such as purchased items, prices, receipt headers, and vendor names.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- File and size limits
- Supported formats are JPEG, PNG, PDF and TIFF; synchronous requests allow one-page PDF/TIFF files up to 10 MB, while asynchronous PDF/TIFF files can be up to 500 MB and 3,000 pages.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Forms
- The service extracts related key-value pairs from document forms while preserving their context.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Identity documents
- AnalyzeID extracts information such as expiry date, birth date, names and addresses from supported identity documents without templates.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent review tradeoff
- OCR Vendors rates Textract 7.4/10, praising low per-page cost and AWS integrations while citing AWS lock-in, required expertise, extra-cost support and fewer prebuilt processors than Google.ocrvendors.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent test limitation
- An independent review found Textract’s unstructured text extraction accurate and inexpensive but reported poor forms accuracy and slower asynchronous PDF workflows requiring S3.crosstab.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Input
- A document can be supplied as image bytes or as an Amazon S3 object.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- AWS lists robotic-process-automation partners Blue Prism, Ripcord and UiPath, plus service and software partners including Accenture, Deloitte, Box and PwC.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Language support limit
- Text detection supports English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish; handwriting, invoices, receipts, identity documents and Queries are English-only.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 15 Oct 2026
