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Amazon Textract Demo

This is the companion code repository for this blog article. It demonstrates how you can use Python SDK for Amazon Textract for document processing.

As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Textract for free. The Free Tier lasts for three months, and new AWS customers can analyze up to 100 invoice pages per month. Beyond this, there are charges for using Textract.

Prerequisites

Install required Python packages

To install Python packages required for this demo, run the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure AWS credentials

Credentials to access your AWS account must be configured making calls to Amazon Textract. On Linux and MacOS these are usually located in file ~/.aws/credentials. On Windows these are usually located in in file %USERPROFILE%\.aws\credentials. Check this link for details.