Using AWS Textract — Extract Text in Images

Vikas K Solegaonkar
ITNEXT
Published in
7 min readDec 8, 2019

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AWS has a range of AI-specific services that help expedite use of AI in our cloud based applications. With these in place, a developer can focus on the business logic, letting Amazon take care of developing perfection in the AI models.

Textract is an AWS service that helps us read text out of an image. It is capable of handling complex images — all at an API call. That leaves the…

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