Recognition service – text detection

We are going to leverage the Amazon Rekognition service to provide the capability to detect text in an image. Let's first take a test drive of this capability using the AWS CLI. We will use a photo of a German street sign:

The source of the preceding photo is https://www.freeimages.com/photo/german-one-way-street-sign-3-1446112.

Since we will be using S3 to hold the photos, let's first upload this photo to an S3 bucket we created in Chapter 1, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services. For instance, we will be uploading the image to our contents.aws.ai bucket. Once uploaded, to perform ...

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