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tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR with Node.js?


Tesseract OCR is an open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that can be used to extract text from images. It can be used with Node.js as follows:

  1. Install the tesseract.js package from npm:
npm install tesseract.js
  1. Import the package into your project:
const Tesseract = require('tesseract.js');
  1. Load the image you want to extract text from:
const image = await Tesseract.recognize('image.png');
  1. Extract the text from the image:
const text = await image.text();
  1. Output the extracted text:
This is the extracted text from the image.

This is a basic example of how to use Tesseract OCR with Node.js. For more information, see the Tesseract.js documentation.

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