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Bindings to Tesseract OCR engine for R
https://docs.ropensci.org/tesseract
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magick dependency #29

Closed dmi3kno closed 6 years ago

dmi3kno commented 6 years ago

This is probably not an issue, but rather a suggestion and an invitation to discussion.

ImageMagick installation on Windows may be ... a little involved. Is there a reason you want to keep dependency on magick in tesseract? You only seem to use magick for saving magick images, so if you save them using other tools, you are afraid of losing class (do you even need to save them, as argued in #28)? I imagine that removing dependency on magick will help wider adoption of tesseract, particularly by folks to tend to use imager and other R image processing platforms

jeroen commented 6 years ago

The magick package on windows is self contained and does not depend on imagemagick. Did you try:

install.packages("magick")

Also tesseract does not depend on magick, it is a suggests which means that it is only needed for running examples.

dmi3kno commented 6 years ago

I apologize for asking. You are right that magick is self-contained. I would love to hear your view on #28 re: TMP images. Thank you again and sorry for my lack of diligence.