Get text from a remote scanned PDF using Python and Amazon Textract

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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.

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