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Amazon Textract vs UiPath Document Understanding comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Textract
Ranking in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
11th
Average Rating
6.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
UiPath Document Understanding
Ranking in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) category, the mindshare of Amazon Textract is 4.4%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath Document Understanding is 11.0%, down from 14.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
UiPath Document Understanding11.0%
Amazon Textract4.4%
Other84.6%
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
 

Featured Reviews

Anuj Pratap Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Achieve efficient automation in document processing with advanced data extraction features
When discussing Amazon Textract, the handwritten OCR quality is good. I'm working with multiple OCR solutions for handwritten data, and Amazon Textract is much better than other solutions. Amazon Textract is superior because it has features that allow you to use analytics or intelligent automation with the OCR. It will automatically identify key and value pairs, so you can use the data easily. For instance, if a PDF mentions a name, Amazon Textract can identify the key and value, translating that data automatically. Implementing Amazon Textract decreases manual effort in document processing tasks. For example, if any data entry is done by one employee, using the OCR will automatically decrease the man-hours required. Amazon Textract helps in compliance and auditing efforts because if I have a 100-page report that needs summarizing, I first need to extract data from it and input it into Excel. This data copy-pasting can be a challenging task for a human, but OCR simplifies it, enabling calculations to be implemented much faster and more efficiently.
Gangadhar Wali - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-trained models work well, but it is very expensive
We have to do manual validation for some of the things due to the OCR engine not being so accurate. For example, S is read as 5, 5 as S, 2 as Z, and Z as 2. In the case of currency, if one dot is missing, it gives a completely incorrect number. These discrepancies should be fixed because if the OCR itself doesn't work properly, then AI doesn't help with that. When AI is used for training models, the AI Center works precisely, but if the data itself is wrong, we can't do anything. If the extraction of data is proper, it definitely helps. However, 20% errors could be reduced if the OCR engine were better. In future updates, I would like to see better handling of issues such as when a dot is missing in currency, for example, with dollars, it should handle that automatically. It's very expensive. If the volume increases, we can't afford to use Document Understanding. We are thinking of moving to another solution because we are expecting 80,000 to 100,000 invoices.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"With the help of Amazon Textract, we are reducing labor and manpower because with just one API call, we can get all the extracted information with its coordinates."
"Amazon Textract is superior because it has features that allow you to use analytics or intelligent automation with the OCR; it will automatically identify key and value pairs, so you can use the data easily."
"Amazon Textract is superior because it has features that allow you to use analytics or intelligent automation with the OCR; it will automatically identify key and value pairs, so you can use the data easily."
"Amazon Textract was easy to use."
"The UiPath Document Understanding tool is very easy to use for document understanding."
"The best feature is pre-labeling, as it eliminates the need to manually label each data point."
"It shortens the time of extracting data by 70 to 80%."
"There are many features that can be added to the action center to keep humans in the loop to evaluate the accuracy of the extracted data."
"The scalability it offers is truly exceptional, making it arguably the best in the market."
"UiPath provides a useful feature that allows us to classify documents as invoices or not."
"The validation process is easy. The Validation Station shows you the extracted data on one side and the document on the other, so you can easily scroll down and check if the data is accurate. You just need to click a checkbox. If you don't think it is fine, you have the option to add an exception. Based on that exception, you can create multiple conditions for how to address the same issue if it happens again."
"I like the clear and organized way in which UiPath has structured the labeling process, as well as the user-friendly development environment."
 

Cons

"The product has not given correct results for me. It was not accurate, especially with handwritten items and documents with pencil marks, which Amazon Textract failed to identify correctly."
"They should provide an offline solution because in many areas in India and outside, there are clients facing Internet issues."
"Sometimes the tabular data does not process properly for complex tabular structures or complex tables."
"They should provide an offline solution because in many areas in India and outside, there are clients facing Internet issues."
"If there were more integrations with Veracode or the AWS server, so we don't have to completely transfer our data and keep data on our servers, that might increase security."
"Right now, we are trying to use Instabase, which is another tool for document understanding."
"There is room for improvement in UiPath Document Understanding's pricing. It is expensive for small clients. Currently, there is a big gap between the basic package and the 200,000 packages. There is no package in the middle for small agencies."
"Sometimes, when the number of items is very large, the solution doesn't properly identify them."
"Its pricing can be improved."
"Currently, we have to train multiple templates because the column size and row size change in each PDF."
"This is an expensive solution."
"UiPath could improve its analytics and interface."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"UiPath Document Understanding compared to the competitors is high."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution a nine."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"UiPath Document Understanding is expensive, with the basic annual package including 6,000 documents and the next package including one million documents, a huge price difference."
"The solution’s cost increases for machine learning or artificial intelligence because we have to go for UiPath Orchestrator."
"One of the biggest challenges we face with UiPath is the pricing structure."
"UiPath's pricing model is complex and based on AI units, which are consumed during model training and use."
"While Robotic Process Automation tools can be expensive, UiPath Document Understanding is no exception."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
38%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
16%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise25
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Textract?
I did not think about the cost that much because we have to fulfill the customer's requirement. Whatever they demand, we do not think about cost at first. Whatever the cost involved, we will pay fo...
What needs improvement with Amazon Textract?
The main benefit of using Amazon Textract needs improvement, specifically when we extract the tabular data, it is very complicated to get its coordinate functions. We get the coordinates for child ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Textract?
There was a use case for the healthcare domain where we have to process dental claims and EOB documents. For that document, we have to extract the information in the structured tabular format as we...
What do you like most about UiPath Document Understanding?
The solution allows us to continue with vendors whose information comes in correctly and to stop the automation for vendors with many items that are not clearly defined.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for UiPath Document Understanding?
It can be cheaper, but for the work it does, it's decent. It's not a very affordable solution.
What needs improvement with UiPath Document Understanding?
For UiPath Document Understanding, there is a possibility for improving accuracy with multilingual documents, especially handwritten ones. It doesn't have very great accuracy, particularly for hand...
 

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Sample Customers

Cambia, Change Healthcare, ClearDATA
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