Open Source OCR Engine

Bindings to 'Tesseract': a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) engine that supports over 100 languages. The engine is highly configurable in order to tune the detection algorithms and obtain the best possible results.


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install.packages("tesseract")

5.3.1 by Jeroen Ooms, 25 days ago


https://docs.ropensci.org/tesseract/ https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/tesseract


Report a bug at https://github.com/ropensci/tesseract/issues


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/tesseract


Authors: Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


Apache License 2.0 license


Imports Rcpp, pdftools, curl, rappdirs, digest

Suggests magick, spelling, knitr, tibble, rmarkdown

Linking to Rcpp

System requirements: Tesseract >= 3.03 (libtesseract-dev / tesseract-devel) and Leptonica (libleptonica-dev / leptonica-devel). On Debian you need to install the English training data separately (tesseract-ocr-eng)


Suggested by LLMAgentR, acR, camtrapR, effectcheck, imagerExtra, inlpubs, magick, orderanalyzer, pdftools, poldis.


See at CRAN