tesseract-ocrHow do I download and install Tesseract OCR?

1. Download the latest version of Tesseract OCR from GitHub.
2. Extract the downloaded file.
3. Install the dependencies required for Tesseract OCR, such as Leptonica, which can be done using the following command: sudo apt-get install libleptonica-dev.
4. Compile the source code using the following command: ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install.
5. Add the Tesseract OCR installation directory to the system path. This can be done using the following command: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin.
6. Test the installation by running the following command: tesseract --version. The output should look like this:

tesseract 4.1.1
 leptonica-1.78.0
  libgif 5.1.4 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.5.2) : libpng 1.6.34 : libtiff 4.0.9 : zlib 1.2.11 : libwebp 0.6.1 : libopenjp2 2.3.0

7. You should now be able to use Tesseract OCR.

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