start-document-text-detection
Description
Starts the asynchronous detection of text in a document. Amazon Textract can detect lines of text and the words that make up a line of text.
StartDocumentTextDetection can analyze text in documents that are in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and PDF format. The documents are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Use DocumentLocation to specify the bucket name and file name of the document.
StartTextDetection returns a job identifier (JobId ) that you use to get the results of the operation. When text detection is finished, Amazon Textract publishes a completion status to the Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that you specify in NotificationChannel . To get the results of the text detection operation, first check that the status value published to the Amazon SNS topic is SUCCEEDED . If so, call GetDocumentTextDetection , and pass the job identifier (JobId ) from the initial call to StartDocumentTextDetection .
For more information, see Document Text Detection .
See also: AWS API Documentation
Synopsis
start-document-text-detection
--document-location <value>
[--client-request-token <value>]
[--job-tag <value>]
[--notification-channel <value>]
[--output-config <value>]
[--kms-key-id <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]
Options
--document-location (structure)
The location of the document to be processed.
S3Object -> (structure)
The Amazon S3 bucket that contains the input document.
Bucket -> (string)
Name -> (string)
Version -> (string)
Shorthand Syntax:
S3Object={Bucket=string,Name=string,Version=string}
JSON Syntax:
{
"S3Object": {
"Bucket": "string",
"Name": "string",
"Version": "string"
}
}
--client-request-token (string)
StartDocumentTextDetection requests, the same JobId is returned. Use ClientRequestToken to prevent the same job from being accidentally started more than once. For more information, see Calling Amazon Textract Asynchronous Operations .--job-tag (string)
JobTag to identify the type of document that the completion notification corresponds to (such as a tax form or a receipt).--notification-channel (structure)
The Amazon SNS topic ARN that you want Amazon Textract to publish the completion status of the operation to.
SNSTopicArn -> (string)
RoleArn -> (string)
Shorthand Syntax:
SNSTopicArn=string,RoleArn=string
JSON Syntax:
{
"SNSTopicArn": "string",
"RoleArn": "string"
}
--output-config (structure)
Sets if the output will go to a customer defined bucket. By default Amazon Textract will save the results internally to be accessed with the GetDocumentTextDetection operation.
S3Bucket -> (string)
S3Prefix -> (string)
Shorthand Syntax:
S3Bucket=string,S3Prefix=string
JSON Syntax:
{
"S3Bucket": "string",
"S3Prefix": "string"
}
--kms-key-id (string)
--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.
--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.
Global Options
--debug (boolean)
Turn on debug logging.
--endpoint-url (string)
Override command’s default URL with the given URL.
--no-verify-ssl (boolean)
By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.
--no-paginate (boolean)
Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.
--output (string)
The formatting style for command output.
- json
- text
- table
- yaml
- yaml-stream
--query (string)
A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.
--profile (string)
Use a specific profile from your credential file.
--region (string)
The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.
--version (string)
Display the version of this tool.
--color (string)
Turn on/off color output.
- on
- off
- auto
--no-sign-request (boolean)
Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.
--ca-bundle (string)
The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.
--cli-read-timeout (int)
The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.
--cli-connect-timeout (int)
The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.
--cli-binary-format (string)
The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.
- base64
- raw-in-base64-out
--no-cli-pager (boolean)
Disable cli pager for output.
--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)
Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.
--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)
Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.
Examples
Note
To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.
Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .
To start detecting text in a multi-page document
The following start-document-text-detection example shows how to start asynchronous detection of text in a multi-page document.
Linux/macOS:
aws textract start-document-text-detection \
--document-location '{"S3Object":{"Bucket":"bucket","Name":"document"}}' \
--notification-channel "SNSTopicArn=arn:snsTopic,RoleArn=roleARN"
Windows:
aws textract start-document-text-detection \
--document-location "{\"S3Object\":{\"Bucket\":\"bucket\",\"Name\":\"document\"}}" \
--region region-name \
--notification-channel "SNSTopicArn=arn:snsTopic,RoleArn=roleArn"
Output:
{
"JobId": "57849a3dc627d4df74123dca269d69f7b89329c870c65bb16c9fd63409d200b9"
}
For more information, see Detecting and Analyzing Text in Multi-Page Documents in the Amazon Textract Developers Guide
Output
JobId -> (string)
JobId to identify the job in a subsequent call to GetDocumentTextDetection . A JobId value is only valid for 7 days.
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