tesseract-ocrHow do I use Tesseract OCR with the command line?

Tesseract OCR is an open-source command-line tool used for recognizing text from images. To use Tesseract OCR with the command line, perform the following steps:

1. Install Tesseract OCR on your system.
2. Download the image file that you want to recognize text from.
3. Open a command line or terminal window.
4. Navigate to the directory containing the image file.
5. Run the following command, replacing input.jpg with the name of your image file:

tesseract input.jpg output

This command will create a file called output.txt in the same directory, which will contain the recognized text.

6. To view the recognized text, open the output.txt file in a text editor.
7. (Optional) To save the recognized text to a different file, run the following command, replacing output.txt with the desired path and filename:

tesseract input.jpg output --oem 0 -psm 6 txt output.txt

This command will save the recognized text to output.txt.

Helpful links

• Tesseract OCR
• Command Line Usage

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