tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR with Windows 10?

Tesseract OCR can be used with Windows 10 in the following way:

1. Install the Tesseract OCR executable from this link.
2. Install the language data from this link.
3. Create a Python script to read the image file and pass it to Tesseract OCR.

Example code

import pytesseract
from PIL import Image

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"<path to tesseract executable>"

img = Image.open('<path to image file>')
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)

print(text)

Output (if any): The text extracted from the image.

Code explanation

• import pytesseract: imports the pytesseract module which provides an interface to the Tesseract OCR engine.
• from PIL import Image: imports the Python Imaging Library (PIL) module which provides functions to open, manipulate and save images.
• pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"<path to tesseract executable>": sets the path to the Tesseract OCR executable.
• img = Image.open('<path to image file>'): opens the image file.
• text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img): passes the image to Tesseract OCR and extracts the text from it.
• print(text): prints the extracted text.

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