OCR_document: Scan PDF with optical character recognition (OCR)

In arete: Automated REtrieval from TExt

Scan PDF with optical character recognition (OCR)

Description

Extract text contained under image form in a PDF through the use of optical character recognition software (OCR). Currently two options are available, method = "nougat" and method = "tesseract".

Usage

OCR_document(in_path, out_path, method = "nougat", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

in_path	character. string of a file with species data in either pdf or txt format, e.g: ./folder/file.pdf
out_path	character. Binomial name of the species used with applicable type.
method	character. Method used for the OCR. Currently it defaults to the only available method, nougatOCR.
verbose	logical. Print output after finish.

Details

For now OCR processing of documents is only supported on linux systems.

Value

character. Containing the extracted information.

See Also

arete_setup

Examples

## Not run: 
OCR_document("path/to/file.pdf", "path/to/dir")

## End(Not run)

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