Simon Willison’s Weblog

28th June 2022

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TIL Running OCR against a PDF file with AWS Textract — [Textract](https://aws.amazon.com/textract/) is the AWS OCR API. It's very good - I've fed it hand-written notes from the 1890s and it read them better than I could.

Posted 28th June 2022 at 7:32 pm

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