tesseract-ocrHow do I use Tesseract OCR on macOS?

Tesseract OCR is an open source OCR library that can be used on macOS. It can be installed using Homebrew:

brew install tesseract

Once installed, you can use Tesseract to recognize text from an image file. For example, the following command will recognize text from an image file called example.png:

tesseract example.png output

This command will output a file called output.txt that contains the recognized text.

You can also specify the language of the text to be recognized. For example, to recognize German text, you can use the following command:

tesseract example.png output -l deu

You can find a list of available languages here.

You can also adjust the OCR engine mode to optimize for different types of text. For example, to optimize for a single uniform block of text, you can use the following command:

tesseract example.png output -psm 6

You can find a list of available OCR engine modes here.

Tesseract OCR can also be used with other programming languages such as Python and Java. For more information, you can refer to the official documentation.

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