[R] Ocr

Jim Lemon drjimlemon at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 00:39:55 CEST 2016


Hi Shane,
If you want to run OCR on the command line, the Tessaract engine is
probably the way to go. Harder to build and install, but you can call
it from an R session.

Jim


On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Shane Carey <careyshan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool, thanks Jim!!
> I would love to be able to write my own script for this as I have many
> images/ pdf's in a folder and would like to batch process them using an R
> script!!
> Thanks
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Shane,
>> FreeOCR is a really good place to start.
>>
>> http://www.paperfile.net/
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Shane Carey <careyshan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Has anyone ever done any ocr in R?? I have some scanned images that I
>> > would
>> > like to convert to text!!
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Le gach dea ghui,
>> > Shane
>> >
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>
> --
> Le gach dea ghui,
> Shane
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