OCR images, barcodes, forms, documents with machine readable zones, e.g. passports, right from R. Get the results in any one of a wide variety of formats, from text to XML. The package provides access to Abbyy Cloud OCR. For more information, see http://ocrsdk.com/. Details about results of calls to the API can be found at http://ocrsdk.com/documentation/specifications/status-codes/.
To learn how to use abbyyR, see this vignette: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=abbyyR/vignettes/overview.html. Or, see how to scrape text from a folder of static Wisconsin Ads storyboards: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=abbyyR/vignettes/wiscads.html.
You need to get credentials (application ID and password) to use this application.
If you haven't already, get these at http://ocrsdk.com/. And set these using setapp