# Amazon Textract (أمازون تكستراكت)

> Amazon Textract is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: No Outreach
- Company: [Amazon](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/amazon.md)
- Categories: AI Infrastructure & Platforms, API Services, Cloud Hosting
- Official site: https://aws.amazon.com/textract/
- Community votes: 3
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/amazon-textract

## About

Extract text, forms, and tables from scanned documents automatically

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria, confirmed by community testing in April 2026. The marketing page and the AWS sales contact form load, but both paths to actually use the service fail; the AWS Console returns a 400 "Access Restricted" page, and new AWS account signup fails with a "Website Temporarily Unavailable" message at the password step. No outreach to the company has been recorded yet.

## Community reports

- 2026-04-08 — Verified. Community testing confirmed Amazon Textract remains blocked from Syria. The marketing page and AWS sales contact form (which does include Syria) load, but the two paths to actually use the service both fail. The console at console.aws.amazon.com/textract/home returns a «400 Access Restricted» page, and new AWS account signup fails with «Website Temporarily Unavailable» at the password creation step. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/a8ppu6m4ipq7dah7aotjy0hb/zebe2asb4pa69hdzu26b19yk-screen-1.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/z5462vhz3xey9m1s5l374fbn/cqdhifr9afvff7gg8b4j8tc0-screen-3.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/tjoewra2ndohjv6q27geu3n4/etsgdf963rt1w2jh3ggccbm6-screen-4.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/fy5knuo2grf3wuioa4fhj8tj/kax9tiwxxwfumylx8ymka7p5-screen-5.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/qegip85c0clw0xiab56hwq5h/bap8ire1bbalfy9me9q25wbi-screen-6.png)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/amazon-textract?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/amazon-textract/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/amazon-textract
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/amazon-textract.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/amazon-textract.md