tesseract-ocrHow do I use the Tesseract OCR Linux command?

The Tesseract OCR Linux command is used to recognize text in images. To use it, first you need to install the Tesseract OCR package. On Ubuntu, this can be done by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Once the package is installed, you can use the Tesseract OCR command to recognize text in an image. For example, if you have an image named example.jpg, you can run the following command to recognize the text in the image and save it to a text file:

tesseract example.jpg output

This will create a file named output.txt containing the recognized text.

The Tesseract OCR command also supports many options for customizing the recognition process. For example, you can specify the language to use for recognition, the page segmentation mode, and the OCR engine mode. For a full list of options, you can run the following command:

tesseract --help

For more information on using the Tesseract OCR command, you can refer to the Tesseract OCR documentation.

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