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March 30, 2024, 7:01 p.m. |

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textract-cli


This is my other OCR project from yesterday: I built the thinnest possible CLI wrapper around Amazon Textract, out of frustration at how hard that tool is to use on an ad-hoc basis.


It only works with JPEGs and PNGs (not PDFs) up to 5MB in size, reflecting limitations in Textract's synchronous API: it can handle PDFs amazingly well but you have to upload them to an S3 bucket yet and I decided to keep the scope tight for …

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