From the resource:
In the wake of defending my dissertation and landing a new job, I’ve been relaxing by polishing up an R package, PastecR that wraps the API for Pastec, an open-source fuzzy image matching engine.
The creator of Pastec recently launched a hosted version of the service of the service.
I’ve just updated PastecR to talk to both self-hosted instances of Pastec, as well as the SaaS instance at api.pastec.io.