Pair Nova 2 Lite with Claude for cost-optimized document processing | Amazon Web Services
A scanned yearbook page contains 176 printed names, 4 portrait photographs, and zero machine-readable structure linking them. To digitize this page, you need reliable photo detection with bounding boxes and accurate name extraction. You also need a way to determine which name belongs to which face based on page layout.
In this post, we show how pairing Amazon Nova 2 Lite with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers an efficient solution for digitizing scanned documents at scale. We built a two-model pipeline on Amazon Bedrock for digitizing scanned yearbook pages. Amazon Nova 2 Lite handles native multimodal extraction in a single call: detecting photos, extracting visible names with coordinates, and returning page-level metadata. Claude Sonnet 4.6 then performs spatial reasoning to match names to faces based on page layout.
We ran this pipeline against 336 scanned yearbook pages and produced 3,122 name-to-face associations, with 93 percent scoring at or above 0.95...
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