By calling the 'SimpleTex' https://simpletex.cn/ open API implements text and mathematical formula recognition on the image, and the output formula can be used directly with Markdown and LaTeX.
# Install development version from GitHub remotes::install_github("chuxinyuan/simpletex") # Install from CRAN install.packages("simpletex")Configure the ID and SECRET for the SimpleTex API
To use the simpletex package, user need to first register with the SimpleTex platform, and then create application. After creating the application, Then you will get SimpleTex API ID and SECRET.
Put your SimpleTex API ID and SECRET in the following code and run it once.
cat( '\n# ID and SECRET of SimpleTex', 'SIMPLETEX_APP_ID = "Your SimpleTex API ID"', 'SIMPLETEX_APP_SECRET = "Your SimpleTex API SECRET"', file = '~/.Renviron', sep = '\n', append = TRUE )
imgocr(img = "path/to/image", mode = "latex_ocr")
img
An image file, supporting jpg, png, bmp format.mode
is service model. The value can be latex_ocr
, latex_ocr_turbo
, or simpletex_ocr
. The default value is latex_ocr
. The latex_ocr
and latex_ocr_turbo
are used for formula identification. latex_ocr
is better than latex_ocr_turbo
, but latex_ocr_turbo
is faster. simpletex_ocr
is suitable for general image recognition.For the output, for example: "E=mc^2", you can copy only the parts within quotation marks of the output directly into the '.md' or '.tex' document.
Note: in order to the formula to render properly in '.md' or '.tex' documents, you also need to wrap the formula with $
or $$
on both sides.
simpletex is free and open source software, licensed under MIT + file LICENSE.
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