From 32a88f1bad23fedc555284523c234d953f507ac1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "James R. Barlow" Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 16:29:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: warn that AWS Lambda doesn't work --- docs/batch.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/batch.rst b/docs/batch.rst index 7144246e..9d484790 100644 --- a/docs/batch.rst +++ b/docs/batch.rst @@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ Alternatives - `Watchman `__ is a more powerful alternative to ``watchmedo``. +AWS Lambda is not viable +------------------------ + +AWS Lambda and its equivalents have low limits on execution time and payload +size, relative to OCRmyPDF's needs. As of this writing, the request/response +payload for AWS Lambda was 6 MB, which means many PDFs will not fit. + macOS Automator ===============