This article announces Amazon Q Business now supports scanned PDFs and embedded images in PDF documents. It enables users to get answers, summaries, and insights from these document types without needing to preprocess or extract text using OCR.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Amazon Q Business is a generative AI assistant for enhancing employee productivity
• Prior to this update, users had to preprocess scanned PDFs and extract text before using Q Business
• Now users can directly feed scanned PDFs and PDFs with embedded images into Q Business
• This simplifies building generative AI assistants using Q Business APIs or web apps
• The feature is available in all AWS regions where Q Business is offered