Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing service. You input a document and it develops insights by recognizing the entities, key phrases, language, sentiments, and other common elements of that document.

It’s based on either pre-trained or custom models, you’ve got the option of using either of these.

Comprehend is capable of doing real-time analysis for small workloads or asynchronous jobs for larger workloads.

The service can be used from the console or command line for interactive use, or the APIs.

The product is capable of identifying

  • any languages used in the text

  • Personal Identifiable Information such as names, card numbers, date and times, bank account numbers, bank routing, address, phone numbers and emails.

  • the overall level of sentiment in the text: Comprehend is capable of Sentiment Recognition