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:
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Install Chocolatey package manager for Windows.
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Install Tesseract OCR using the command line:
choco install tesseract
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Add Tesseract to the PATH environment variable.
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Install the language packs for the languages you wish to use. For example, to install English language pack:
choco install tesseract-ocr-eng
- 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
- Test the installation by running the following command:
tesseract image.png output
- Check the output file
output.txt
for the recognized text.
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