tesseract-ocrHow do I use Tesseract OCR to extract text from a ZIP file?

In order to use Tesseract OCR to extract text from a ZIP file, the following steps need to be taken:

1. Install Tesseract OCR on your computer. This can be done using the command pip install tesseract-ocr
2. Unzip the ZIP file using the command unzip <file_name>.zip
3. Extract the text from the file using the command tesseract <file_name>.<file_extension> stdout
4. The extracted text will be printed out in the terminal.

Example code

unzip <file_name>.zip
tesseract <file_name>.<file_extension> stdout

Output example

This is the extracted text from the file.

Helpful links

• Tesseract OCR
• How to Install Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu

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