This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: January 2, 2026.Send and process a document with DeepSeek on Amazon Bedrock
The following code example shows how to send and process a document with DeepSeek on Amazon Bedrock.
- Python
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- SDK for Python (Boto3)
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Send and process a document with DeepSeek on Amazon Bedrock.
# Send and process a document with DeepSeek on Amazon Bedrock.
import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
# Create a Bedrock Runtime client in the AWS Region you want to use.
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
# Set the model ID, e.g. DeepSeek-R1
model_id = "us.deepseek.r1-v1:0"
# Load the document
with open("example-data/amazon-nova-service-cards.pdf", "rb") as file:
document_bytes = file.read()
# Start a conversation with a user message and the document
conversation = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"text": "Briefly compare the models described in this document"},
{
"document": {
# Available formats: html, md, pdf, doc/docx, xls/xlsx, csv, and txt
"format": "pdf",
"name": "Amazon Nova Service Cards",
"source": {"bytes": document_bytes},
}
},
],
}
]
try:
# Send the message to the model, using a basic inference configuration.
response = client.converse(
modelId=model_id,
messages=conversation,
inferenceConfig={"maxTokens": 2000, "temperature": 0.3},
)
# Extract and print the reasoning and response text.
reasoning, response_text = "", ""
for item in response["output"]["message"]["content"]:
for key, value in item.items():
if key == "reasoningContent":
reasoning = value["reasoningText"]["text"]
elif key == "text":
response_text = value
print(f"\nReasoning:\n{reasoning}")
print(f"\nResponse:\n{response_text}")
except (ClientError, Exception) as e:
print(f"ERROR: Can't invoke '{model_id}'. Reason: {e}")
exit(1)
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