tesseract-ocrHow do I download the Tesseract OCR engine?

1. Tesseract OCR engine can be downloaded from its official page hosted on GitHub.
2. You can also download Tesseract from its releases page.
3. To download Tesseract, you can use the command line. For example, to download version 4.1.0, you can use the command wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/4.1.0.tar.gz:

   wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/4.1.0.tar.gz

4. After downloading the file, you can extract it using the command tar -xvf 4.1.0.tar.gz:

   tar -xvf 4.1.0.tar.gz

5. After extracting the file, you can install Tesseract by running the make command in the extracted directory:

   make

6. Once the installation is complete, you can test the installation by running the tesseract --version command:

   tesseract --version

   Output:

   
   tesseract 4.1.0
   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. For more detailed instructions, you can refer to the official installation guide.

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