tesseract-ocrHow can I use Homebrew to install Tesseract OCR?

Homebrew is a package manager for macOS. It can be used to install Tesseract OCR with the following steps:

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Type brew update and press enter. This will update Homebrew with the latest packages.
3. Type brew install tesseract and press enter. This will install Tesseract OCR.
4. To test the installation, type tesseract --version and press enter. This should output the version of Tesseract OCR installed.

Example code

brew update
brew install tesseract
tesseract --version

Example output:

tesseract 4.1.1
 leptonica-1.78.0
  libgif 5.2.1 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.5.2) : libpng 1.6.34 : libtiff 4.0.9 : zlib 1.2.11

• brew update: Updates Homebrew with the latest packages.
• brew install tesseract: Installs Tesseract OCR.
• tesseract --version: Outputs the version of Tesseract OCR installed.

Helpful links

• Homebrew: https://brew.sh/
• Tesseract OCR: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

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