Get text — get_text • daiR

Extracts the text OCRed by Document AI (DAI)

get_text(
  object,
  type = "sync",
  save_to_file = FALSE,
  dest_dir = getwd(),
  outfile_stem = NULL
)

Arguments

object: either a HTTP response object from dai_sync() or the path to a JSON file from dai_async().
type: one of "sync" or "async", depending on the function used to process the original document.
save_to_file: boolean; whether to save the text as a .txt file
dest_dir: folder path for the .txt output file if save_to_file = TRUE
outfile_stem: string to form the stem of the .txt output file

a string (if save_to_file = FALSE)

if (FALSE) {
text <- get_text(dai_sync("file.pdf"))

text <- get_text("file.json", type = "async", save_to_file = TRUE)
}