Detecting and Translating Text with Amazon Rekognition and Translate

In this chapter, we will build our first Artificial Intelligence (AI) application that solves a real-world problem, as opposed to a theoretical demonstration. We will build an application that can translate foreign texts appearing in pictures. We will do this by combining two AWS AI services, Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Translate. The application will use the reference architecture introduced in the previous chapter. In this hands-on project, not only will we be building intelligent capabilities for the current application, we will also be designing them to be reusable components that we can leverage in future hands-on projects.

We will cover the following topics:

• Detecting text in images with Amazon Rekognition
• Translating text using Amazon Translate
• Embedding intelligent capabilities into applications
• Building serverless AI applications with AWS services, RESTful APIs, and web user interface
• Discussing good design practices and build intelligent capabilities as reusable components