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description: Part of the AWS Textract processor family
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# Block Types

Each block returned from the Textract API have a specific type that convey what each block is or represents.

For text detection operations (done by the DetectDocumentText processors), a block can take one of the following types:

| Identifier | Description                                                                                                                   |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `PAGE`     | A block whose relationships contain a list of blocks (of type `LINE`) that are detected on a document page                    |
| `WORD`     | A word detected on a document page. A word is one or more ISO basic Latin script characters that are not separated by spaces. |
| `LINE`     | A string of tab-delimited, contiguous words that are detected on a document page                                              |

For text analysis operations (done by the AnalyzeDocumentText processors), a block can take one of the following types:

| Identifier          | Description                                                                                                                                                                  |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `PAGE`              | A block whose relationships contain a list of blocks (of type `LINE`) that are detected on a document page                                                                   |
| `WORD`              | A word detected on a document page. A word is one or more ISO basic Latin script characters that are not separated by spaces                                                 |
| `LINE`              | A string of tab-delimited, contiguous words that are detected on a document page                                                                                             |
| `TABLE`             | A table that is detected on a document page. A table is a grid-based information structure with two or more rows or columns, with a cell span of one row and one column each |
| `CELL`              | A cell within a detected table. The cell is the parent of the block that contains the text in the cell                                                                       |
| `SELECTION_ELEMENT` | A selection element such as a radio button or a check box that is detected on a document page                                                                                |
