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 <careys...@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 <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> 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 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 > ______________________________________________ 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.
