tesseract --list-langs # shows installed languages Basic OCR test:
Here’s a clear, step-by-step guide to downloading and installing Tesseract OCR on the most common operating systems. The official installer is maintained by UB Mannheim. tesseract ocr download
pip install pytesseract pillow Then in Python: tesseract --list-langs # shows installed languages Basic OCR
brew install tesseract-lang
tesseract --version Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt update sudo apt install tesseract-ocr Install additional languages (optional): sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-hin # Hindi sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-fra # French Fedora/RHEL: sudo dnf install tesseract Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S tesseract Verify: tesseract ocr download
from PIL import Image import pytesseract pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe' text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('sample.png')) print(text) 5. Testing your installation Run this in terminal/command prompt:
tesseract --version Using Homebrew (recommended):