Where do I run this AWS rekognition code and do I

Question

`
import boto3

 if __name__ == "__main__":

    bucket='random_name'
    photo='b4.png'

    client=boto3.client('rekognition')


    response=client.detect_text(Image={'S3Object': 
    {'random_name':bucket,'b4.png':photo}})


    textDetections=response['TextDetections']
    print(response)
    print('Matching faces')
    for text in textDetections:
         print('Detected text:' + text['DetectedText'])
         print('Confidence: ' + "{:.2f}".format(text['Confidence']) + "%")
         print('Id: {}'.format(text['Id']))
         if 'ParentId' in text:
               print('Parent Id: {}'.format(text['ParentId']))
               print('Type:' + text['Type'])
               print()`

This is the code recognizing images(OCR) yet I do not know where I should paste this code to run. Do I run this in Jupyter notebooks and would I need to install extra things? Do I run it in the Anaconda Prompt? I've tried both. In Jupyter, I get an error: |ParamValidationError: Parameter validation failed: Unknown parameter in Image.S3Object: "random_name", must be one of: Bucket, Name, Version Unknown parameter in Image.S3Object: "b4.png", must be one of: Bucket, Name, Version| and Anaconda prompt has much more errors. I've installed AWS already and curious whether there is more to install. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone helped me.

Answer 1

Code that calls an AWS API (such as client.detect_text()) can be run from anywhere on the Internet. You have shown some Python code that can be run on a server, on a laptop, an EC2 instance or as a Lambda function (with a bit of a cleanup).

The only additional thing it needs is a set of credentials so that it can connect to your AWS account.

• If you are running the code on an Amazon EC2 instance or as a lambda function, simply assign the instance/function an appropriate IAM Role and the code will automatically receive credentials.
• If you are running the code on your own computer, first run the aws configure command and provide your IAM User credentials.

Also, please note that the format of detect_text() is:

response = client.detect_text(
    Image={
        'Bytes': b'bytes',
        'S3Object': {
            'Bucket': 'string',
            'Name': 'string',
            'Version': 'string'
        }
    }
)

Therefore, your line of code should be:

response = client.detect_text(Image={'S3Object':{'Bucket':bucket, 'Name':photo}})

Also, I wouldn't say that this function is true OCR. Rather, it finds bits of text in a picture, such as words on a sign. It would not be suitable for reading a page full of text, which is done by traditional OCR methods.