Textract with Step Function and Cloud Formation

This is a complete setup for automatic text extraction from PDF / JPEG / PNG files using Amazon Textract.

Deployment

Check out this repository and run the included deploy.sh script.

It will create a new S3 bucket and the use CloudFormation template to build the required resources.

$ ./deploy.sh
[*] Verifying deployment settings...
[x] Stack name: textract-demo
[x] Region: us-west-2
[x] Account ID: 123456789012
[x] Deployment bucket: textract-demo-123456789012-us-west-2

Press [Enter] to continue or Ctrl-C to abort.

When done follow these steps to test that it works:

1. Upload your test PDF to the /upload folder in the newly created S3 bucket.

2. Open the Step Function page to follow the progress

3. When done download the results from the /output folder in the bucket.

Author

Michael Ludvig