Using Tesseract package to extract text from pictures in R. One can also extract text from pdf in similar manner as shown in latter half of the video.
OCR : Optical character recognition
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0:00 Introduction
0:36 Text from png files
2:47 Languages other than "eng" ?
3:31 Text from pdf files
5:38 knitting R code
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