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Following you will find a brief of Textract

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Detect printed text and numbers in a scan or rendering of a document, use synchronous or asynchronous operations via API and information is returned in JSON format. Synchronous refer to live scenes such as posters or road signs, asynchronous to a multy page documents.


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The following diagram shows how the line Hello, world. in the text Hello, world.

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How are you? is represented by Block objects
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Analyze Document API: The Analyze Document API extracts data from tables and key-value pairs from forms.

Key-Value Pair Extraction: Detect key-value pairs in document images automatically to retain the inherent context of the document. Use synchronous or asynchronous operations to analyze text in a document. The results of text analysis are returned in a JSON format

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The following diagram shows how the key-value pair Name: Ana Carolina is represented by Block object
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Table Extraction: Automatically load the extracted data into a database using a pre-defined schema. Preserves the composition of data stored in tables during extraction.

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The following diagram shows how a single cell in a table is represented by Block objects.
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Pricing

No minimum fees and no upfront commitments. Amazon Textract charges for each page processed and whether we extract only text from documents or text with tables and/or form data.

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Dependencies:

Python 3.7

pip 19.03

Installing dependencies documentation requiredDocumentation :

https://serverfault.com/questions/918335/best-way-to-run-python-3-7-on-ubuntu-16-04-which-comes-with-python-3-5

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-linux.html#install-linux-pip


User configuration

Create an IAM user with the following permissions

  • AmazonTextractFullAccess
  • AmazonSQSFullAccess
  • Sufficient permissions to upload and read images from a bucket in S3

Documentation :

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html


  1. Install AWS CLI

This client is available in Linux, Windows, macOS, Virtualenv, Bundled Installer. We will test it in Ubuntu 16.04

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-linux.html#install-linux-pip

Verify that the AWS CLI installed correctly.

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2. Configure AWS Cli

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3. Test by executing a list operation



Related links:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v3/api/class-Aws.Textract.TextractClient.html