tesseract-ocrHow to install and use Tesseract OCR on Arch Linux?

1. Install Tesseract OCR on Arch Linux:

   sudo pacman -S tesseract

2. Install the language data package you need:

   sudo pacman -S tesseract-data-<lang>

   Replace <lang> with the language you need, for example eng.

3. Test the installation by running Tesseract on an image:

   tesseract <image_file> <output_file>

   This will produce an output file containing the text extracted from the image.

4. To use Tesseract with other languages, specify the language code as an argument:

   tesseract <image_file> <output_file> -l <lang>

   Replace <lang> with the language code you need.

5. To get better accuracy, you can also specify the page segmentation mode:

   tesseract <image_file> <output_file> -psm <mode>

   Replace <mode> with the page segmentation mode you need.

6. To use Tesseract with other languages, you can also specify a custom config file:

   tesseract <image_file> <output_file> -c <config_file>

   Replace <config_file> with the path to the config file.

7. For more information, see the Tesseract documentation and the Arch Wiki page.

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