Textract via API

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Hi. I am new with AWS services and I am trying to use Textract via python. I made the download of following python script from AWS template:
import boto3
from trp import Document

# Document
documentName = R'E:\fotos\aaa.jpg'
print (documentName)

# boto3.setup_default_session(profile_name='default')
# secretsmanager = boto3.client('secretsmanager')

# Amazon Textract client
textract = boto3.client('textract')

# Call Amazon Textract
with open(documentName, "rb") as document:
    response = textract.analyze_document(
        Document={
            'Bytes': document.read(),
        },
        FeatureTypes=["TABLES"])

#print(response)

doc = Document(response)

for page in doc.pages:
     # Print tables
    for table in page.tables:
        for r, row in enumerate(table.rows):
            for c, cell in enumerate(row.cells):
                print("Table[{}][{}] = {}".format(r, c, cell.text))

I created a lot of king of users: portal and IAM user, with or without MFA nor Alias.
Of course all of them using AWS configure to create a credentials file (evey time delete the file first).
When I run the script, every time i got: when calling the AnalyzeDocument operation: The security token included in the request is invalid.

Finally I decide to create a simple user with id and password without IAM nor MFA for this user.
Run again aws configure with input for Access Key ID e Secret Access Key. The remains parameters I assumed the default: region=us-east-1 e output=json.

As this user does not have MFA, i did not run aws sts.
Even thought I got the error of invalid token.
Can anybody help me on this. I am trying for a month to test Textract and I am in a authorization phase yet. Very frustrating.

Brettski-AWS · Answer

It sounds like the identity information in your AWS profile is not correct.

Please do **not** post your AWS configuration files here; but what you should have in your `~/.aws/credentials` file is something like:
```
[default]
aws_access_key_id = AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key = wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
```

Note that you don't need `boto3.setup_default_session(profile_name='default')` because the default profile is "default" already.

If you're using IAM user credentials, delete them and create a new set of credentials then paste them into the credentials file.

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