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ocr

Image Text OCR

Extract text from an image using the tesseract package.

image_ocr(image, language = "eng", HOCR = FALSE, ...)

image_ocr_data(image, language = "eng", ...)

`image`	magick image object returned by `image_read()` or `image_graph()`
`language`	passed to tesseract. To install additional languages see instructions in tesseract_download().
`HOCR`	if `TRUE` return results as HOCR xml instead of plain text
`...`	additional parameters passed to tesseract

To use this function you need to tesseract first:

install.packages("tesseract")

Best results are obtained if you set the correct language in tesseract. To install additional languages see instructions in tesseract_download().

if(require("tesseract")){
img <- image_read("http://jeroen.github.io/images/testocr.png")
image_ocr(img)
image_ocr_data(img)
}

Advanced Graphics and Image-Processing in R

v2.7.2

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4035-0289>)

Initial release