tesseract-ocrHow do I set up a Tesseract OCR server?

Setting up a Tesseract OCR server requires several steps.

1. Install Tesseract OCR library. This can be done with the command:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

2. Install a language package for Tesseract. This can be done with the command:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-<lang>

Where <lang> is the language package you wish to install.

3. Create a folder to store your images. This can be done with the command:

mkdir /path/to/images

4. Copy your images into the folder you created in step 3.

5. Run Tesseract on the images. This can be done with the command:

tesseract /path/to/images/<image>.png /path/to/output

Where <image> is the name of the image you wish to process.

6. Install a web server to host the Tesseract OCR server. This can be done with the command:

sudo apt-get install apache2

7. Configure the web server to run Tesseract OCR. This can be done by following the instructions on this page.

For more information, see this page.

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