OCR in Python with Amazon Textract

If you have always wanted to use OCR techniques but don’t know how to do it, AWS provides a service with everything you may need. I will tell you how you can use it in your projects.

What is OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR), consists on techniques to identify all those characters that appear in an image. OCR is highly used in multiple choice exams, where it identifies the answer the user has marked.

If we go even further, we can digitalize any file that includes text, such as images or books.