aws textract detect-document-text

Detects text in the input document. AWS CLI reference

1 example 1 option Its page in the AWS CLI reference

Examples

from aws-cli, each command read by CmdID

To detect text in a document

The following detect-document-text example shows how to detect text in a document.

For Linux and macOS, use the following command.

aws textract detect-document-text --document '{"S3Object":{"Bucket":"amzn-s3-demo-bucket","Name":"document"}}'Identify

--documentThe input document as base64-encoded bytes or an Amazon S3 object.

For Windows, use the following command.

aws textract detect-document-text --document "{\"S3Object\":{\"Bucket\":\"amzn-s3-demo-bucket\",\"Name\":\"document\"}}"Identify

--documentThe input document as base64-encoded bytes or an Amazon S3 object.

Its output, shortened

{
    "Blocks": [
        {
            "Geometry": {
                "BoundingBox": {
                    "Width": 1.0,
                    "Top": 0.0,
                    "Left": 0.0,
                    "Height": 1.0
                },
                "Polygon": [
                    {
                        "Y": 0.0,
                        "X": 0.0
                    },
                    {
                        "Y": 0.0,
                        "X": 1.0
                    },
                    {
                        "Y": 1.0,
                        "X": 1.0
                    },
                    {
                        "Y": 1.0,
                        "X": 0.0
                    }
                ]
            },
            "Relationships": [
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For more information, see Detecting Document Text with Amazon Textract in the Amazon Textract Developer Guide.

Options

1 in the AWS CLI reference

--documentThe input document as base64-encoded bytes or an Amazon S3 object.