Amazon Rekognition can detect and read text in an image, and return bounding boxes for each word found. Starting today, Amazon Rekognition supports text detection in images in 7 new languages – Arabic, Russian, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Amazon Rekognition automatically detects and extracts text in images in all supported languages, without requiring a language parameter. In addition, Amazon Rekognition delivers higher overall accuracy, with improvements for vertical and curved text in images.