tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR on a Raspberry Pi?

Using Tesseract OCR on a Raspberry Pi is quite simple.

Install Tesseract OCR:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Output example

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libleptonica-dev libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr-eng
Suggested packages:
  tesseract-ocr-osd tesseract-ocr-spa tesseract-ocr-chi-sim
  tesseract-ocr-chi-tra tesseract-ocr-equ
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libleptonica-dev libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,926 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,848 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Set up the language:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng

Output example

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libleptonica-dev libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr
Suggested packages:
  tesseract-ocr-osd tesseract-ocr-spa tesseract-ocr-chi-sim
  tesseract-ocr-chi-tra tesseract-ocr-equ
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libleptonica-dev libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,926 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,848 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Run Tesseract OCR:

tesseract image.jpg output

This will output a text file named 'output.txt' that contains the text extracted from the image.

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