OMB Individually Reported

Hand-written text extraction using Textract for the Public Engagement with Science Initiative

Exact public inventory row

Description

OIA Team proposes using a Commercial Off the Shelf Amazon Web Services (AWS) product, Textract, as a character recognition tool to convert handwritten text into machine-encoded text for a postcard. Handwritten text will be an open format question for science and engineering, and some optional check boxes for demographic and other data questions.

Automation level / stage

b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.

Controls / human review

ATO: Not reported; PIA: Not published