Amazon AWS Rekognition Image to Text Tutorial

In this tutorial a user is configured with the required permissions to run the Amazon AWS Rekognition service (detect-text, specifically) on two images from the command line. We then briefly review the results returned by the Rekognition web service. Technical details include the following: aws --version aws-cli/1.16.72 Python/3.6.0 Windows/7 botocore/1.12.62 IAM User Permissions Required: - AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess - AmazonRekognitionFullAccess Command Executed (I can't include angled brackets here so consult with the AWS Rekognition docs for an example of the jsonPathToS3Object value): aws rekognition detect-text --image jsonPathToS3Object --region us-east-1 --profile yourIAMUserName You need to have yourIAMUserName in the ~/.aws/credentials file as follows: [yourIAMUserName] aws_access_key_id=// availableWhenTheUserIsCreated aws_secret_access_key=// availableWhenTheUserIsCreated See also: [1] AWS Rekognition, https://console.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasfuller/ Visit my company website here: https://coherentlogic.com #cloud