How can I Install Tesseract and Pytesseract
Learn to install Tesseract and Pytesseract on your local machine.
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Install the Tesseract OCR engine
To install the Tesseract OCR engine for different operating systems, you can choose the relevant option from the choices given below: :
- Ubuntu – For Ubuntu users, you can use the following command:
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
- Windows – For Windows users, you can visit here and select 32-bit/64-bit as per your system.
- Mac – For macOS users, you can use
Homebrew
to install Tesseract. The command is shown below:$ brew install tesseract
After installing, you can validate the installation by running the following command in your command prompt:
tesseract -v
It will print the version of the Tesseract OCR engine installed on your system.
Install pytesseract wrapper
Once you have installed your Tesseract OCR engine, you can run the following pip
statement to install pytesseract
:
pip install pytesseract
You are all set to can go ahead and perform some OCR operations on your local machine.
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