I have been tasked with developing a Textract tool at work and so far I have been impressed with the complete accuracy of it for non-handwritten, non-photocopied documents.
I haven't seen it make any mistakes at all and responses take less than 3 seconds usually.
Agree it’s best to skip tesseract unless the free cost is important. We spent a lot of time trying to preprocess and tune tesseract before realizing cloud OCR solutions are much better and fairly cheap.