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Extracting content from visuals in a file - Amazon Q Business

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Extracting content from visuals in a file

You can enable content extraction from a file with the Amazon Q Business console or API operations. Processing images and visuals takes more time than processing text-only for the documents.

When you upload documents directly to an Amazon Q Business application environment, in the Multi-media content configuration section of Select files, choose the Visual content in documents option. For step by step instructions, see Uploading files.

To enable content extraction from a file when you use the BatchPutDocument API operation, in the ImageExtractionConfiguration you set the imageExtractionStatus to ENABLED. 

aws qbusiness batch-put-document \
--application-id app-12345abcde \
--index-id index-67890fghij \
--role-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/ServiceRoleName \
--documents '[{
    "Id": "doc1",
    "MediaExtractionConfiguration": {
        "ImageExtractionConfiguration": {
            "ImageExtractionStatus": "ENABLED"
        }
    }
}]' 
--data-source-sync-id sync-12345