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Query - Amazon Textract

Each query contains the question you want to ask in the Text and the alias you want to associate.

Contents

Text

Question that Amazon Textract will apply to the document. An example would be "What is the customer's SSN?"

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\s!"\#\$%'&\(\)\*\+\,\-\./:;=\?@\[\\\]\^_`\{\|\}~><]+$

Required: Yes

Alias

Alias attached to the query, for ease of location.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\s!"\#\$%'&\(\)\*\+\,\-\./:;=\?@\[\\\]\^_`\{\|\}~><]+$

Required: No

Pages

Pages is a parameter that the user inputs to specify which pages to apply a query to. The following is a list of rules for using this parameter.

  • If a page is not specified, it is set to ["1"] by default.

  • The following characters are allowed in the parameter's string: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - *. No whitespace is allowed.

  • When using * to indicate all pages, it must be the only element in the list.

  • You can use page intervals, such as [“1-3”, “1-1”, “4-*”]. Where * indicates last page of document.

  • Specified pages must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to the number of pages in the document.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 9.

Pattern: ^[0-9\*\-]+$

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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