2. Analyzing Documents and Text with Natural Language Processing

Overview

This chapter describes the use of Amazon Comprehend to summarize text documents and create Lambda functions to analyze the texts. You will learn how to develop services by applying the serverless computing paradigm, and use Amazon Comprehend to examine texts to determine their primary language. You will extract information such as entities (people or places), key phrases (noun phrases that are indicative of the content), emotional sentiments, and topics from a set of documents.

By the end of this chapter, you will able to set up a Lambda function to process and analyze imported text using Comprehend and extract structured information from scanned paper documents using Amazon Textract.