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tesseract-ocrHow do I download the Tesseract OCR executable?


  1. Download the Tesseract OCR executable from the Tesseract OCR download page.
  2. Select the appropriate version for your operating system.
  3. For Windows, download the executable file (.exe) and save it to your computer.
  4. For Linux, download the source code and compile it to create the executable.
  5. For Mac, download the executable file (.dmg) and save it to your computer.
  6. Once the file is downloaded, open a command line window and navigate to the directory where the executable is located.
  7. Run the executable by typing ./tesseract in the command line.

Example code block:

$ cd /path/to/tesseract-executable
$ ./tesseract

Output of example code:

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v5.0.0-alpha.20200328 with Leptonica

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