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tesseract-ocrHow do I download and use Tesseract OCR in Java?


  1. Download the Tesseract OCR library from the Tesseract GitHub page.
  2. Add the Tesseract library to your Java project.
  3. Create an instance of the Tesseract library and set the language to use:
ITesseract instance = new Tesseract();
instance.setLanguage("eng");
  1. Load the image to process:
File imageFile = new File("image.png");
  1. Run the Tesseract library on the image:
String result = instance.doOCR(imageFile);
  1. Print the result:
System.out.println(result);
  1. The output will be the text contained in the image.

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