tesseract-ocrHow do I use Tesseract OCR in a Docker container?

Using Tesseract OCR in a Docker container is a great way to quickly set up a Tesseract environment. Here's how to do it:

1. Pull the official Tesseract OCR Docker image from Docker Hub:

docker pull tesseractshadow/tesseract4re

2. Create a new Docker container from the image:

docker run -it --name tesseract-container tesseractshadow/tesseract4re

3. Copy the image you want to OCR into the container:

docker cp my_image.jpg tesseract-container:/

4. Use the tesseract command to OCR the image:

docker exec tesseract-container tesseract my_image.jpg output

5. The output will be written to a text file named output.txt in the current directory.

6. To retrieve the output file from the container, use the docker cp command:

docker cp tesseract-container:/output.txt .

7. You can now read the contents of the output file.

Helpful links

• Tesseract OCR Docker Hub page
• Tesseract OCR GitHub page

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