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Computer Vision on AWS
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A standard requirement for contactless registration systems is to import the person’s government identification card, such as a driver’s license. We can add this capability using Amazon Textract and Amazon Rekognition.
Amazon Textract is a serverless service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. In addition, it can detect forms and tables within documents, PDFs, and images.
In this section, you’ll use Amazon Textract to read a government card and report the properties. There are three steps to completing this task:
First, you must initialize the Amazon Textract client. Luckily, creating an Amazon Textract client is nearly identical to the process for Amazon Rekognition:
textract = boto3.client('textract',region_name=region_name...