tesseract-ocrHow do I install Tesseract OCR?

1. Download the Tesseract OCR source code from the GitHub page.
2. Install the required packages and dependencies for Tesseract OCR.

   sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool
   sudo apt-get install libpng-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff-dev zlib1g-dev

3. Build and install Tesseract OCR:

   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make
   sudo make install

4. Add the Tesseract OCR language data files. The language data files can be found in the GitHub Tessdata Repository.

   wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata
   sudo mv eng.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/

5. Test the Tesseract OCR installation.

   tesseract --version
   tesseract 4.1.1-rc1-25-g9707

6. To use Tesseract OCR, the command line syntax is as follows:

   tesseract <image> <output file> [-l <language>]

7. To get more information on using Tesseract OCR, please refer to the Tesseract OCR Wiki page.

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