tesseract-ocrWhat hardware is required to use Tesseract OCR?

To use Tesseract OCR, you need a computer with a processor that supports SSE2 instructions and a minimum of 512 MB of RAM. You also need a graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.0 or higher. Additionally, you will need to install the Tesseract OCR library and its dependencies.

Example code

# install tesseract
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Output example

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libleptonica-dev libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr-eng
Suggested packages:
  tesseract-ocr-osd tesseract-ocr-spa
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libleptonica-dev libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 43.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

The code consists of two parts:

1. sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr - This command is used to install the Tesseract OCR library and its dependencies.
2. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] - This is the prompt asking whether you want to continue with the installation.

For more information about Tesseract OCR, you can visit the official website.

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