OCR Processing with Tesseract and Magick in R

This project demonstrates the use of Tesseract and Magick libraries in R for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and image preprocessing tasks. It supports text extraction from images and PDFs, language updates, and custom OCR configurations.

About

This project leverages the tesseract and magick R libraries to:

• Perform OCR on images and PDFs.
• Preprocess images for better OCR accuracy.
• Support multilingual text extraction.
• Customize OCR with specific parameters.

##Features

✅ OCR support for multiple languages. ✅ Image preprocessing with Magick. ✅ OCR from PDF files. ✅ Custom OCR settings (e.g., character whitelists).

Prerequisites

Ensure the following are installed on your system:

• R (version >= 4.0)
• Tesseract OCR (installed and configured)
• Required R libraries: tesseract, magick, pdftools

Installation

1. Install the required R packages:

   install.packages("tesseract")
   install.packages("magick")
   install.packages("pdftools")