tesseract

Introduction

Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems.

It is free software, released under the Apache License.[1][6][7] Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development was sponsored by Google in 2006.

Download

Versions for Windows can be downloaded from Mannheim University website uni-mannheim.de

Github repo is here

Install

Let's look at the installation using an example tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5.3.0.20221214.exe

Choose Language

Click Next >

Click I Agree

Click Next >

Click Next >

Click Next >

Click Install

Click Next >

Click Finish

Add to PATH

You can add the path to Tesseract to the PATH system variable using the command PowerShell

$Env:Path += ';C:/Program Files/Tesseract-OCR'

Get Version

You can find out the Tesseract version using the command PowerShell

tesseract --version

tesseract v5.3.0.20221214 leptonica-1.78.0 libgif 5.1.4 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.5.3) : libpng 1.6.34 : libtiff 4.0.9 : zlib 1.2.11 : libwebp 0.6.1 : libopenjp2 2.3.0 Found AVX2 Found AVX Found FMA Found SSE4.1 Found libarchive 3.5.0 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.3 bz2lib/1.0.6 liblz4/1.7.5 libzstd/1.4.5 Found libcurl/7.77.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11 zstd/1.4.5 libidn2/2.0.4 nghttp2/1.31.0

Article author: Andrei Olegovich