[R] Best Package to Extract Numbers from this Image?

steven mosher moshersteven at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 07:19:44 CEST 2011


 You can probably use  the package jpg , It will be a pain.  You will
have to read it in as a jpg
 then isolate the numbers ( by row and column ) then figure out some
way ( probably not that hard)
 to identify the numbers
 from the bit pattern.  I tried something similar with the png
package. it was not elegant



On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jason Rupert <jasonkrupert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've done a bit of searching around on the forums looking for an R Package to extract the numbers from an image like the following:
> http://www.whnt.com/extras/whnt/weather/7day_640.jpg
>
> I would like to be able to do this in an automated way, so thanks for any hints and tips.
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