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

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.

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

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