Get text from a remote scanned PDF using Python and Amazon Textract
Published in
Apr 15, 2021
Francisco Caro — Technical Lead R:Solver
Hello everyone. In this post I’ll show you how to extract text from a scanned PDF document hosted in some url, using Python and Amazon Textract.
This code also tries to first read the document as if machine generated, to avoid the costs of using Textract unnecessarily.