# AWS brings Textract document processing to Tokyo and Zurich

_Published Monday, November 2, 2026 at 7:18 PM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS says Amazon Textract is now available in its Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Zurich) Regions, bringing the service to 18 AWS Regions. Textract extracts text, handwriting, and structured data from scanned documents.

The two new Regions support text detection and document analysis, including operations that start processing jobs and retrieve their results. Expense, identity document, and lending analysis operations are unavailable there, as are Custom Queries adapters.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/textract-tokyo-zurich/)

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