[R] Ocr

[boB Rudis]

https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/abbyyR/index.html

https://github.com/greenore/ocR

https://electricarchaeology.ca/2014/07/15/doing-ocr-within-r/

that was from a Google "r ocr" search. So, yes, there are options.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Shane Carey 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!!
>
>
> The underlying engine is "tesseract" which is also available as a
> command-line tool and on other OSs. In principle, it is not hard to call it
> with a system() command and then readLines() the resulting text. However, it
> might be useful to play with the available options in the GUI first to see
> what works best for your images.
>
>
>> 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
>>> <javascript:;>> 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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