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Endpoint is weird Amazon Textract Python

I'm trying to use textract in python. I got the code from this url: https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-textract-code-samples/blob/c8f34ca25113100730e0f4db3f6f316b0cff44d6/python/02-detect-text-s3.py.
I only changed s3BucketName and documentName in the code. But when I ran the code, I got this error:

botocore.exceptions.EndpointConnectionError: Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://textract.USA.amazonaws.com/"

Should I alter the url manually? If so, how can i do that?

Solution

  • The endpoint URL depends on your AWS region; USA is not a valid AWS region.

    You can set the region when creating the boto3 client:

    textract = boto3.client('textract', region_name='us-west-1')

    will use https://textract.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ as the endpoint.

    Alternatively, the region can come from the profile or environment; see the boto3 configuration docs for more details.