How Does It Work? - Architecture Tour

Visual and console tours of the document processing architecture

How Does It Work? - Architecture Tour

Visual and console tours of the document processing architecture

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How Document Processing Works

Choose your path: a visual tour with diagrams and explanations, or a hands-on console tour exploring the AWS infrastructure.

Architecture Tours

Visual Architecture Tour

How documents flow through AWS services for extraction

10 min

1. 1

   Document Upload to S3

   Your document is securely uploaded to AWS cloud storage

   
2. 2

   Textract OCR Processing

   Amazon Textract reads text from the document like a human would

   
3. 3

   Comprehend Entity Extraction

   Amazon Comprehend identifies key entities (names, addresses, dates)

   
4. 4

   Bedrock Intelligence

   AWS Bedrock AI interprets and validates the extracted data

   
5. 5

   Results Stored

   Extracted data is stored for review and export

   

Console Architecture Tour

Navigate AWS Console to understand document processing infrastructure

15 min Requires deployed stack

1. S3 Buckets

   What to look for: Input and output buckets, folder structure, lifecycle policies

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2. Textract Results

   What to look for: Analysis results, confidence scores, detected fields

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3. Lambda Processing

   What to look for: Processing function, environment variables, memory settings

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4. Step Functions Workflow

   What to look for: Workflow visualization, execution history, error handling

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5. CloudWatch Logs

   What to look for: Processing logs, error messages, performance metrics

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What's Next?

Test the Limits

Push the boundaries to understand edge cases and error handling.

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Production Guidance

Learn what changes for real-world deployment.

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