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  Amazon Rekognition is a cloud service for extracting text in images launched by Amazon. It can find the text in an image and recognize it, as well as output other necessary information provided in this image, such as the location of both the image and  the  text. I'd like to share my hands-on experience in installing and working with it in this blog post. It can be used on both Windows and Linux OS. Part 1: Prerequisites Step 1: Sign up to AWS Follow the instructions to sign up for an AWS account .  Step 2: Create an IAM user account Sign in to the  IAM console and set up user and permissions. You can follow these instructions in part ' Step 2: Create an IAM user account '.  The IAM console is shown in the image below. You can add users, create groups, and set up access in this console. Step 3: Create an access key ID and secret access key The access key ID and secret access key are needed for the AWS  CLI (Command Line Interface) access. In th...