Extract text from image in R

Question

Is it possible to extract text from image? Can someone help me acheive this.

Answer 1

Try below code to fetch the image and then use image_ocr() to read text from the image. print the text using cat().

img <- image_read("[path address]")

cat(image_ocr(img))

For more information about image_ocr(),

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/magick/versions/1.1/topics/image_ocr