Amazon Textract is described as 'Machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting and data from scanned documents that goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables' and is a document scanner in the online services category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Amazon Textract for Web-based, SaaS, npm and Self-Hosted. The best Amazon Textract alternative is Midship. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Nanonets or Documind. Other great apps like Amazon Textract are Invoice OCR, DigiParser, entityworks and Formalogix.