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tesseract-ocrHow do I install Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu?


  1. Install the Tesseract OCR package using apt-get:

    sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

    This will install the Tesseract OCR package, as well as the language packages for English, Spanish, and other languages.

  2. Install the Leptonica library:

    sudo apt-get install libleptonica-dev

    This library is required for Tesseract OCR to work properly.

  3. Install the Tesseract OCR library:

    sudo apt-get install libtesseract-dev

    This library is the main Tesseract OCR library, and is necessary for Tesseract OCR to work.

  4. Install the Tesseract OCR language data files:

    sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng

    This will install the language data files for English, which is necessary for Tesseract OCR to work properly.

  5. Download and install the Tesseract OCR source code:

    wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/master.zip
    unzip master.zip
    cd tesseract-master
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

    This will download and install the Tesseract OCR source code, which is necessary for Tesseract OCR to work properly.

  6. Verify that Tesseract OCR is installed correctly:

    tesseract -v

    This should output the version of Tesseract OCR that is installed.

  7. Test Tesseract OCR by running it on an image:

    tesseract example.png output

    This will run Tesseract OCR on the example.png image, and output the results to the output file.

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