Detecting Document Text with Amazon Textract

To detect text in a document (API)

1. If you haven't already:

   1. Give a user the AmazonTextractFullAccess and AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess permissions. For more information, see Step 1: Set Up an AWS Account and Create a User.

   2. Install and configure the AWS CLI and the AWS SDKs. For more information, see Step 2: Set Up the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs.

2. Upload a document to your S3 bucket.

   For instructions, see Uploading Objects into Amazon S3 in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide.

3. Use the following examples to call the DetectDocumentText operation.

   Java

   The following example code displays the document and boxes around lines of detected text.

   In the function main, replace the values of bucket and document with the names of the Amazon S3 bucket and document that you used in step 2. Replace the value of credentialsProvider with the name of your developer profile.

   //Calls DetectDocumentText.
   //Loads document from S3 bucket. Displays the document and bounding boxes around detected lines/words of text.
   import java.awt.*;
   import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
   import java.util.List;
   import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
   import javax.swing.*;
   import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3;
   import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3ClientBuilder;
   import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.S3ObjectInputStream;
   import com.amazonaws.client.builder.AwsClientBuilder.EndpointConfiguration;
   import com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfileCredentialsProvider;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.AmazonTextract;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.AmazonTextractClientBuilder;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.model.Block;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.model.BoundingBox;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.model.DetectDocumentTextRequest;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.model.DetectDocumentTextResult;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.model.Document;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.model.S3Object;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.model.Point;
   import com.amazonaws.services.textract.model.Relationship;
   
   public class DocumentText extends JPanel {
   
       private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
   
       BufferedImage image;
       DetectDocumentTextResult result;
   
       public DocumentText(DetectDocumentTextResult documentResult, BufferedImage bufImage) throws Exception {
           super();
           
           result = documentResult; // Results of text detection.
           image = bufImage; // The image containing the document.
   
       }
   
       // Draws the image and text bounding box.
       public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
   
           int height = image.getHeight(this);
           int width = image.getWidth(this);
   
           Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g; // Create a Java2D version of g.
   
           // Draw the image.
           g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, image.getWidth(this) , image.getHeight(this), this);
   
           // Iterate through blocks and display polygons around lines of detected text.
           List<Block> blocks = result.getBlocks();
           for (Block block : blocks) {
               DisplayBlockInfo(block);
               if ((block.getBlockType()).equals("LINE")) {
                   ShowPolygon(height, width, block.getGeometry().getPolygon(), g2d);
                   /*
                     ShowBoundingBox(height, width, block.getGeometry().getBoundingBox(), g2d);
                    */
               } else { // its a word, so just show vertical lines.
                   ShowPolygonVerticals(height, width, block.getGeometry().getPolygon(), g2d);
               }
           }
       }
   
       // Show bounding box at supplied location.
       private void ShowBoundingBox(int imageHeight, int imageWidth, BoundingBox box, Graphics2D g2d) {
   
           float left = imageWidth * box.getLeft();
           float top = imageHeight * box.getTop();
   
           // Display bounding box.
           g2d.setColor(new Color(0, 212, 0));
           g2d.drawRect(Math.round(left), Math.round(top),
                   Math.round(imageWidth * box.getWidth()), Math.round(imageHeight * box.getHeight()));
   
       }
   
       // Shows polygon at supplied location
       private void ShowPolygon(int imageHeight, int imageWidth, List<Point> points, Graphics2D g2d) {
   
           g2d.setColor(new Color(0, 0, 0));
           Polygon polygon = new Polygon();
   
           // Construct polygon and display
           for (Point point : points) {
               polygon.addPoint((Math.round(point.getX() * imageWidth)),
                       Math.round(point.getY() * imageHeight));
           }
           g2d.drawPolygon(polygon);
       }
   
       // Draws only the vertical lines in the supplied polygon.
       private void ShowPolygonVerticals(int imageHeight, int imageWidth, List<Point> points, Graphics2D g2d) {
   
           g2d.setColor(new Color(0, 212, 0));
           Object[] parry = points.toArray();
           g2d.setStroke(new BasicStroke(2));
   
           g2d.drawLine(Math.round(((Point) parry[0]).getX() * imageWidth),
                   Math.round(((Point) parry[0]).getY() * imageHeight), Math.round(((Point) parry[3]).getX() * imageWidth),
                   Math.round(((Point) parry[3]).getY() * imageHeight));
   
           g2d.setColor(new Color(255, 0, 0));
           g2d.drawLine(Math.round(((Point) parry[1]).getX() * imageWidth),
                   Math.round(((Point) parry[1]).getY() * imageHeight), Math.round(((Point) parry[2]).getX() * imageWidth),
                   Math.round(((Point) parry[2]).getY() * imageHeight));
   
       }
       //Displays information from a block returned by text detection and text analysis
       private void DisplayBlockInfo(Block block) {
           System.out.println("Block Id : " + block.getId());
           if (block.getText()!=null)
               System.out.println("    Detected text: " + block.getText());
           System.out.println("    Type: " + block.getBlockType());
           
           if (block.getBlockType().equals("PAGE") !=true) {
               System.out.println("    Confidence: " + block.getConfidence().toString());
           }
           if(block.getBlockType().equals("CELL"))
           {
               System.out.println("    Cell information:");
               System.out.println("        Column: " + block.getColumnIndex());
               System.out.println("        Row: " + block.getRowIndex());
               System.out.println("        Column span: " + block.getColumnSpan());
               System.out.println("        Row span: " + block.getRowSpan());
   
           }
           
           System.out.println("    Relationships");
           List<Relationship> relationships=block.getRelationships();
           if(relationships!=null) {
               for (Relationship relationship : relationships) {
                   System.out.println("        Type: " + relationship.getType());
                   System.out.println("        IDs: " + relationship.getIds().toString());
               }
           } else {
               System.out.println("        No related Blocks");
           }
   
           System.out.println("    Geometry");
           System.out.println("        Bounding Box: " + block.getGeometry().getBoundingBox().toString());
           System.out.println("        Polygon: " + block.getGeometry().getPolygon().toString());
           
           List<String> entityTypes = block.getEntityTypes();
           
           System.out.println("    Entity Types");
           if(entityTypes!=null) {
               for (String entityType : entityTypes) {
                   System.out.println("        Entity Type: " + entityType);
               }
           } else {
               System.out.println("        No entity type");
           }
           if(block.getPage()!=null)
               System.out.println("    Page: " + block.getPage());            
           System.out.println();
       }
   
       public static void main(String arg[]) throws Exception {
           
           // The S3 bucket and document
           String document = "";
           String bucket = "";
   
           // set provider credentials
           AWSCredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = new ProfileCredentialsProvider("default");
           
           AmazonS3 s3client = AmazonS3ClientBuilder.standard().withCredentials(credentialsProvider)
                   .withEndpointConfiguration( 
                           new EndpointConfiguration("https://s3.amazonaws.com","us-east-1"))
                   .build();
           
                  
           // Get the document from S3
           com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.S3Object s3object = s3client.getObject(bucket, document);
           S3ObjectInputStream inputStream = s3object.getObjectContent();
           BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(inputStream);
   
           // Call DetectDocumentText
           EndpointConfiguration endpoint = new EndpointConfiguration(
                   "https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "us-east-1");
           AmazonTextract client = AmazonTextractClientBuilder.standard().withCredentials(credentialsProvider)
                   .withEndpointConfiguration(endpoint).build();
   
   
           DetectDocumentTextRequest request = new DetectDocumentTextRequest()
               .withDocument(new Document().withS3Object(new S3Object().withName(document).withBucket(bucket)));
   
           DetectDocumentTextResult result = client.detectDocumentText(request);
           
           // Create frame and panel.
           JFrame frame = new JFrame("RotateImage");
           frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
           DocumentText panel = new DocumentText(result, image);
           panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(image.getWidth() , image.getHeight() ));
           frame.setContentPane(panel);
           frame.pack();
           frame.setVisible(true);
   
       }
   }

   Java V2

   The following example code displays the document and boxes around lines of detected text.

   In the function main, replace the values of bucket and document with the names of the Amazon S3 bucket and document that you used in step 2. Replace profile-name in the line that creates the TextractClient with the name of your developer profile.

   import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.ProfileCredentialsProvider;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.services.textract.model.S3Object;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.services.textract.TextractClient;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.services.textract.model.Document;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.services.textract.model.DetectDocumentTextRequest;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.services.textract.model.DetectDocumentTextResponse;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.services.textract.model.Block;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.services.textract.model.DocumentMetadata;
   import software.amazon.awssdk.services.textract.model.TextractException;
   import java.util.Iterator;
   import java.util.List;
   //snippet-end:[textract.java2._detect_s3_text.import]
   
   /**
   * Before running this Java V2 code example, set up your development environment, including your credentials.
   *
   * For more information, see the following documentation topic:
   *
   * https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/get-started.html
   */
   public class DetectText {
   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
   
        final String usage = "\n" +
            "Usage:\n" +
            "    <bucketName> <docName> \n\n" +
            "Where:\n" +
            "    bucketName - The name of the Amazon S3 bucket that contains the document. \n\n" +
            "    docName - The document name (must be an image, i.e., book.png). \n";
   
        if (args.length != 2) {
            System.out.println(usage);
            System.exit(1);
        }
   
        String bucketName = args[0];
        String docName = args[1];
        Region region = Region.US_EAST_1;
        TextractClient textractClient = TextractClient.builder()
            .region(region)
            .credentialsProvider(ProfileCredentialsProvider.create("profile-name"))
            .build();
   
        detectDocTextS3(textractClient, bucketName, docName);
        textractClient.close();
    }
   
    // snippet-start:[textract.java2._detect_s3_text.main]
    public static void detectDocTextS3 (TextractClient textractClient, String bucketName, String docName) {
   
        try {
            S3Object s3Object = S3Object.builder()
                .bucket(bucketName)
                .name(docName)
                .build();
   
            // Create a Document object and reference the s3Object instance
            Document myDoc = Document.builder()
                .s3Object(s3Object)
                .build();
   
            DetectDocumentTextRequest detectDocumentTextRequest = DetectDocumentTextRequest.builder()
                .document(myDoc)
                .build();
   
            DetectDocumentTextResponse textResponse = textractClient.detectDocumentText(detectDocumentTextRequest);
            for (Block block: textResponse.blocks()) {
                System.out.println("The block type is " +block.blockType().toString());
            }
   
            DocumentMetadata documentMetadata = textResponse.documentMetadata();
            System.out.println("The number of pages in the document is " +documentMetadata.pages());
   
        } catch (TextractException e) {
   
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
            System.exit(1);
        }
    }
    // snippet-end:[textract.java2._detect_s3_text.main]
   }

   AWS CLI

   This AWS CLI command displays the JSON output for the detect-document-text CLI operation.

   Replace the values of Bucket and Name with the names of the Amazon S3 bucket and document that you used in step 2. Replace profile-name with the name of a profile that can assume the role and region with the region in which you want to run the code.

   aws textract detect-document-text \
       --document '{"S3Object":{"Bucket":"bucket","Name":"document"}}' \
       --profile profile-name \
       --region region

   Python

   The following example code displays the document and boxes around detected lines of text.

   In the function main, replace the values of bucket and document with the names of the Amazon S3 bucket and document that you used in step 2. Replace profile-name with the name of a profile that can assume the role and region with the region in which you want to run the code.

   #Detects text in a document stored in an S3 bucket. Display polygon box around text and angled text 
   import boto3
   import io
   from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
   
   def process_text_detection(s3_connection, client, bucket, document):
   
       #Get the document from S3  
       s3_object = s3_connection.Object(bucket,document)
       s3_response = s3_object.get()
   
       stream = io.BytesIO(s3_response['Body'].read())
       image=Image.open(stream)
   
       #To process using image bytes:                      
       #image_binary = stream.getvalue()
       #response = client.detect_document_text(Document={'Bytes': image_binary})
   
       # Detect text in the document
       # Process using S3 object
       response = client.detect_document_text(
           Document={'S3Object': {'Bucket': bucket, 'Name': document}})
   
       # Get the text blocks
       blocks=response['Blocks']
       width, height =image.size    
       print ('Detected Document Text')
      
       # Create image showing bounding box/polygon the detected lines/text
       for block in blocks:
               # Display information about a block returned by text detection
               print('Type: ' + block['BlockType'])
               if block['BlockType'] != 'PAGE':
                   print('Detected: ' + block['Text'])
                   print('Confidence: ' + "{:.2f}".format(block['Confidence']) + "%")
   
               print('Id: {}'.format(block['Id']))
               if 'Relationships' in block:
                   print('Relationships: {}'.format(block['Relationships']))
               print('Bounding Box: {}'.format(block['Geometry']['BoundingBox']))
               print('Polygon: {}'.format(block['Geometry']['Polygon']))
               print()
               draw=ImageDraw.Draw(image)
               # Draw WORD - Green -  start of word, red - end of word
               if block['BlockType'] == "WORD":
                   draw.line([(width * block['Geometry']['Polygon'][0]['X'],
                   height * block['Geometry']['Polygon'][0]['Y']),
                   (width * block['Geometry']['Polygon'][3]['X'],
                   height * block['Geometry']['Polygon'][3]['Y'])],fill='green',
                   width=2)
               
                   draw.line([(width * block['Geometry']['Polygon'][1]['X'],
                   height * block['Geometry']['Polygon'][1]['Y']),
                   (width * block['Geometry']['Polygon'][2]['X'],
                   height * block['Geometry']['Polygon'][2]['Y'])],
                   fill='red',
                   width=2)    
   
                    
               # Draw box around entire LINE  
               if block['BlockType'] == "LINE":
                   points=[]
   
                   for polygon in block['Geometry']['Polygon']:
                       points.append((width * polygon['X'], height * polygon['Y']))
   
                   draw.polygon((points), outline='black')    
   
       # Display the image
       image.show()
   
       return len(blocks)
   
   def main():
       session = boto3.Session(profile_name='profile-name')
       s3_connection = session.resource('s3')
       client = session.client('textract', region_name='region')
       bucket = ''
       document = ''
       block_count=process_text_detection(s3_connection,client,bucket,document)
       print("Blocks detected: " + str(block_count))
       
   if __name__ == "__main__":
       main()
   
   

   Node.js

   The following Node.js example code displays the document and boxes around detected lines of text. It outputs an image of the results to the directory you run the code from. It makes use of the image-size and images packages.

   In the function main, replace the values of bucket and document with the names of the Amazon S3 bucket and document that you used in step 2. Replace the value of regionConfig with the name of the region your account is in. Replace the value of credentialswith the name of your developer profile.

   //Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
   //PDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0 (For details, see https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-rekognition-developer-guide/blob/master/LICENSE-SAMPLECODE.)
   
   async function main(){
   // Import AWS
   const AWS = require("aws-sdk")
   // Use Image-Size to get 
   const sizeOf = require('image-size');
   // Image tool to draw buffers
   const images = require("images");
   
   // Set variables
   var credentials = new AWS.SharedIniFileCredentials({profile: 'default'});
   AWS.config.credentials = credentials;
   AWS.config.update({region:'region-name'});
   const bucket = 'bucket-name' // the s3 bucket name
   const photo  = 'photo-name' // the name of file
   
   // Create a canvas and get the context
   const { createCanvas } = require('canvas')
   const canvas = createCanvas(200, 200)
   const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d')
   
   // Connect to Textract
   const client = new AWS.Textract();
   // Connect to S3 to display image
   const s3 = new AWS.S3();
   
   // Define paramaters
   const params = {
     Document: {
       S3Object: {
         Bucket: bucket,
         Name: photo
       },
     },
   }
   
   // Function to display image
   async function getImage(){
     const imageData =  s3.getObject(
       {
           Bucket: bucket,
           Key: photo
         }
       
     ).promise();
     return imageData;
   }
   
   // get image
   var imageData = await getImage()
   
   // Get the height, width of the image
   const dimensions = sizeOf(imageData.Body)
   const width = dimensions.width
   const height = dimensions.height
   console.log(imageData.Body)
   console.log(width, height)
   
   canvas.width = width;
   canvas.height = height;
   
   try{
     // Call API and log response
     const res = await client.detectDocumentText(params).promise();
     var image = images(imageData.Body).size(width, height)
     //console.log the type of block, text, text type, and confidence
     res.Blocks.forEach(block => {
       console.log(`Block Type: ${block.BlockType}`),
       console.log(`Text: ${block.Text}`)
       console.log(`TextType: ${block.TextType}`)
       console.log(`Confidence: ${block.Confidence}`)
   
       // Draw box around detected text using polygons
       ctx.strokeStyle = 'rgba(0,0,0,0.5)';
       ctx.beginPath();
       block.Geometry.Polygon.forEach(({X, Y}) =>
       ctx.lineTo(width * X - 10, height * Y - 10)
       );
       ctx.closePath();
       ctx.stroke();
       console.log("-----")
     }) 
   
     // render image
     var buffer = canvas.toBuffer("image/png");
     image.draw(images(buffer), 10, 10)
     image.save("output-image.jpg");
     
   } catch (err){
   console.error(err);}
   
   }
   
   main()

   .NET

   The following example provides detected text as a list. Replace the values of bucket and document with the names of the Amazon S3 bucket and document image that you used in step 2.

   
   using System;
   using System.Linq;
   using Amazon.Textract;
   using Amazon.Textract.Model;
   
   namespace TextractAnalyzeID
   {
       class Program 
       {
           static async Task Main()
           {
               String document = "document";
               String bucket = "bucket";
   
               AmazonTextractClient textractClient = new AmazonTextractClient();
   
               DetectDocumentTextRequest detectDocumentTextRequest = new DetectDocumentTextRequest()
               {
                   Document = new Document()
                   {
                       S3Object = new S3Object()
                       {
                           Name = document,
                           Bucket = bucket
                       }
                   }
               };
   
               try
               {
                   var DocumentText = await textractClient.DetectDocumentTextAsync(detectDocumentTextRequest);
                   foreach (Block block in DocumentText.Blocks)
                   {
                       Console.WriteLine(block.BlockType);
                       if (block.BlockType != "PAGE") {
                           Console.WriteLine("Detected Text= " + block.Text);
                           Console.WriteLine("Confidence= " + block.Confidence);
                       }
                       Console.WriteLine("Id= " + block.Id);
   
                       foreach(Relationship relationship in block.Relationships) {
                           Console.WriteLine(relationship.Type);
                           relationship.Ids.ForEach(id => Console.WriteLine("Id= " + id));
                       }
   
                   }
               }
               catch (Exception e)
               {
                   Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
               }
           }    
       }        
   }
                           

4. Run the example. The Python and Java examples display the document image. A black box surrounds each line of detected text. A green vertical line is the start of a detected word. A red vertical line is the end of a detected word. The AWS CLI example displays only the JSON output for the DetectDocumentText operation.