Tesseract OCR Engine for Image-to-Text Workflows

Tesseract OCR is a widely used open source optical character recognition engine with command line and library interfaces. It can extract text from images and scanned documents, supports more than 100 languages, and outputs plain text, hOCR, TSV, and PDF variants.

Prerequisites

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Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• NOTE: This software depends on other packages that may be licensed under different open source licenses.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• It also needs traineddata files which support the legacy engine, for example those from the tessdata repository.

• Basic command line usage:

• Examples can be found in the documentation.

• Source: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Planning.html

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange