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tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR to recognize Kannada text?


Tesseract OCR is an open source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that can be used to recognize text in Kannada. To use Tesseract OCR to recognize Kannada text, you will need to install the Tesseract OCR engine and the Kannada language data.

  1. Install Tesseract OCR:

You can install Tesseract OCR from here.

  1. Install Kannada language data:

You can install the Kannada language data from here.

  1. Run Tesseract OCR:

Once you have installed Tesseract OCR and the Kannada language data, you can use the following code to run Tesseract OCR and recognize Kannada text:

tesseract image.jpg output --lang kan

This will output a text file named output.txt containing the recognized Kannada text.

  1. Further information:

For more information on how to use Tesseract OCR to recognize Kannada text, see the official Tesseract OCR documentation here.

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