AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda’s (read more about Lambda https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/) security policy does not allow you to write anywhere outside /tmp directory. There are two things you need to do to make doctr work on lambda: 1. Disable usage of multiprocessing package by setting DOCTR_MULTIPROCESSING_DISABLE enivronment variable to TRUE. You need to do this, because this package uses /dev/shm directory for shared memory. 2. Change directory doctr uses for caching models. By default it’s ~/.cache/doctr which is outside of /tmp on AWS Lambda’. You can do this by setting DOCTR_CACHE_DIR enivronment variable.