tesseract-ocrHow do I use tesseract-ocr with yocto?

Tesseract-OCR is a powerful open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine that can be used with Yocto.

In order to use Tesseract-OCR with Yocto, you must first install the tesseract-ocr package. This can be done by adding tesseract-ocr to the IMAGE_INSTALL_append variable in your Yocto project's local.conf file.

For example:

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " tesseract-ocr"

Once the package is installed, you can use the tesseract command to process images. For example, to recognize text in an image file called image.png:

tesseract image.png output

The above command will create a text file called output.txt with the recognized text.

The following parts are involved in using Tesseract-OCR with Yocto:

• Installing the tesseract-ocr package by adding it to the IMAGE_INSTALL_append variable in the local.conf file.
• Using the tesseract command to process images.

Helpful links

• Tesseract-OCR
• Yocto Project

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