tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR with Visual Studio C++?

Tesseract OCR can be used with Visual Studio C++ by following the steps below:

1. Install the Tesseract OCR library for Visual Studio C++.

2. Include the Tesseract library header files in the project.

#include <tesseract/baseapi.h>
#include <leptonica/allheaders.h>

3. Create a new instance of the Tesseract library and set the language.

tesseract::TessBaseAPI *api = new tesseract::TessBaseAPI();
api->Init(NULL, "eng");

4. Read the image file into a Pix object.

Pix *image = pixRead("example.png");

5. Set the image for the Tesseract library instance.

api->SetImage(image);

6. Extract the text from the image.

char *text = api->GetUTF8Text();

7. Free the memory allocated for the Tesseract library instance.

api->End();
delete [] text;
pixDestroy(&image);

The output of this code is the text extracted from the image.

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