tesseract-ocrHow do I use Tesseract OCR for German language text recognition?

Tesseract OCR is an open source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that can be used to recognize text in German language. To use Tesseract OCR for German language text recognition, follow these steps:

1. Install the Tesseract OCR engine on your system.
2. Download the language data files for German language from the Tesseract language data repository.
3. Copy the language data files to the Tesseract OCR install directory.
4. To recognize German language text in an image, run the following command:

tesseract image_file.png stdout --oem 1 --psm 3 -l deu

The command above will output the recognized German language text to the console.

5. To save the recognized text to a file, run the following command:

tesseract image_file.png output_file.txt --oem 1 --psm 3 -l deu

The command above will save the recognized German language text to a file named output_file.txt.

6. To recognize German language text from a PDF document, run the following command:

tesseract document.pdf output_file.txt --oem 1 --psm 3 -l deu pdf

The command above will save the recognized German language text to a file named output_file.txt.

7. To recognize German language text from a multi-page PDF document, run the following command:

tesseract document.pdf output_file.txt --oem 1 --psm 3 -l deu pdf pages 1-3

The command above will save the recognized German language text from pages 1 to 3 of the PDF document to a file named output_file.txt.

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