tesseract-ocrHow do I use tesseract OCR in an iOS app?

Tesseract OCR (Optical Character Recognition) can be used in an iOS app by following these steps:

1. Download the Tesseract OCR iOS framework from the GitHub repository.

2. Add the framework to your project by dragging the TesseractOCR.framework folder into your project in XCode.

3. Create an instance of G8Tesseract and set the language, for example:

let tesseract = G8Tesseract(language: "eng")

4. Set the image to be recognized:

tesseract.image = UIImage(named: "sampleImage")

5. Recognize the text:

tesseract.recognize()

6. Get the recognized text:

let recognizedText = tesseract.recognizedText

7. Finally, print the recognized text:

print(recognizedText)

The output would be the recognized text from the image.

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