S3-OCR: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

What it does

I’ve released s3-ocr , a new tool that runs Amazon’s Textract OCR text extraction against PDF files in an S3 bucket, then writes the resulting text out to a SQLite database with full-text search configured so you can run searches against the extracted data. You can search through a demo of 697 pages of OCRd text at s3-ocr-demo.datasette.io/pages/pages . Textract works extremely well: it handles dodgy scanned PDFs full of typewritten code and reads handwritten text better than I can! It charges $1.50 per thousand pages processed. My initial need for this is a collaboration I have running with the San Francisco Microscopy Society . They’ve been digitizing their archives—which stretch back to…from simonwillison.net

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