tesseract-ocrHow do I install Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu?

1. Install Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu by using the following command:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

2. After the installation is complete, you can check the version of Tesseract OCR installed by using the following command:

tesseract --version

Output example

tesseract 4.1.0-rc2

3. You can also use the Tesseract OCR command line tool to recognize text from images by using the following command:

tesseract image.png output

4. To install the Tesseract OCR language data, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-[language]

Replace [language] with the language data you want to install.

5. To use the language data, use the following command:

tesseract image.png output -l [language]

Replace [language] with the language data you want to use.

6. If you want to install additional language data, you can download the language data from the Tesseract OCR GitHub repository.

7. After downloading the language data, copy it to the /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata folder.

Helpful links

• Tesseract OCR GitHub repository
• Tesseract OCR documentation

Edit this code on GitHub