tesseract-ocrHow to install Tesseract OCR on Windows?

Tesseract OCR is an open source tool for recognizing text from images. It can be installed on Windows using the following steps:

1. Install Chocolatey package manager for Windows.

2. Install Tesseract OCR using the command line:

choco install tesseract

3. Add Tesseract to the PATH environment variable.

4. Install the language packs for the languages you wish to use. For example, to install English language pack:

choco install tesseract-ocr-eng

5. Verify the installation by running the following command:

tesseract -v

Output example

tesseract 4.1.1-rc2
 leptonica-1.78.0
  libgif 5.1.4 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.5.3) : libpng 1.6.35 : libtiff 4.0.9 : zlib 1.2.11

6. Test the installation by running the following command:

tesseract image.png output

7. Check the output file output.txt for the recognized text.

Helpful links

• Tesseract OCR on Windows
• Chocolatey Installation Guide

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