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Detects named entities in input text when you use the pre-trained model. Detects custom entities if you have a custom entity recognition model.

When detecting named entities using the pre-trained model, use plain text as the input. For more information about named entities, see Entities in the Comprehend Developer Guide.

When you use a custom entity recognition model, you can input plain text or you can upload a single-page input document (text, PDF, Word, or image).

If the system detects errors while processing a page in the input document, the API response includes an entry in Errors for each error.

If the system detects a document-level error in your input document, the API returns an InvalidRequestException error response. For details about this exception, see Errors in semi-structured documents in the Comprehend Developer Guide.

post/#X-Amz-Target=Comprehend_20171127.DetectEntities

Headers

X-Amz-Target'Comprehend_20171127.DetectEntities' required

Request body

Textstring password

A UTF-8 text string. The maximum string size is 100 KB. If you enter text using this parameter, do not use the <code>Bytes</code> parameter.

LanguageCode'en' | 'es' | 'fr' | 'de' | 'it' | 'pt' | 'ar' | 'hi' | 'ja' | 'ko' | 'zh' | 'zh-TW'
<p>The language of the input documents. You can specify any of the primary languages supported by Amazon Comprehend. If your request includes the endpoint for a custom entity recognition model, Amazon Comprehend uses the language of your custom model, and it ignores any language code that you specify here.</p> <p>All input documents must be in the same language.</p>
EndpointArnstring
<p>The Amazon Resource Name of an endpoint that is associated with a custom entity recognition model. Provide an endpoint if you want to detect entities by using your own custom model instead of the default model that is used by Amazon Comprehend.</p> <p>If you specify an endpoint, Amazon Comprehend uses the language of your custom model, and it ignores any language code that you provide in your request.</p> <p>For information about endpoints, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/comprehend/latest/dg/manage-endpoints.html">Managing endpoints</a>.</p>
Bytesstring
<p>This field applies only when you use a custom entity recognition model that was trained with PDF annotations. For other cases, enter your text input in the <code>Text</code> field.</p> <p> Use the <code>Bytes</code> parameter to input a text, PDF, Word or image file. Using a plain-text file in the <code>Bytes</code> parameter is equivelent to using the <code>Text</code> parameter (the <code>Entities</code> field in the response is identical).</p> <p>You can also use the <code>Bytes</code> parameter to input an Amazon Textract <code>DetectDocumentText</code> or <code>AnalyzeDocument</code> output file.</p> <p>Provide the input document as a sequence of base64-encoded bytes. If your code uses an Amazon Web Services SDK to detect entities, the SDK may encode the document file bytes for you. </p> <p>The maximum length of this field depends on the input document type. For details, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/comprehend/latest/dg/idp-inputs-sync.html"> Inputs for real-time custom analysis</a> in the Comprehend Developer Guide. </p> <p>If you use the <code>Bytes</code> parameter, do not use the <code>Text</code> parameter.</p>

Response

Success