Text in Images

In the previous chapters, you learned how to extract text from scanned documents such as tax returns and company statements. Amazon Rekognition can detect and extract text from images as well—for example, street signs, posters, product names, and license plates. Of course, this feature is made to work with real-world images instead of document images. The Text in image link, which is accessible from the left toolbar, is where this capability resides in Amazon Rekognition.

For each image provided, the service returns a text label and bounding box, along with a confidence score. This can be extremely useful for searching text across a collection of images. Each image can be tagged with the corresponding text metadata based on the results from this and other capabilities of the service.

For now, the only texts that are supported are Latin scripts and numbers (Western script). Up to 50 sequences of characters can be recognized per image. The text must be horizontal...