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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.zeil...@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 <drjimle...@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 <careys...@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 >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org <javascript:;> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and >>> >>> more, see >>>> >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>>> >>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Le gach dea ghui, >> Shane >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
