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Open source text recognition (OCR) Engine to extract printed text from images.

Category

Image

License

Apache 2

Platforms

Windows macOS Linux

Released

2005

Path

c:\tesseract\tesseract.exe

Benefits

Supports a wide variety of languages.

Notes

Latest downloadable Windows build is 5.5.0 (UB Mannheim, 2024-11-11). Newer source tags (5.5.1, 5.5.2) have no published Windows binary yet.

Examples

tesseract.exe d:\images\image-with-text.png - -l eng

tesseract.exe input_file.tiff output_file pdf

Try it

• OCR an image to plain text
  Run 'tesseract <input> - -l eng' to read printed text from sample_page.png and stream the recognized text to stdout. Output language is set to English.
• OCR with bounding boxes (TSV)
  Use 'tesseract <input> - tsv' to emit recognized words with per-word bounding boxes, page/block/paragraph IDs, and confidence scores in tab-separated form. Useful for layout-aware extraction.

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# Tesseract OCR - Help

Source: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/

```
Usage:
  C:\CFusionExtra\tesseract\tesseract.exe --help | --help-extra | --version
  C:\CFusionExtra\tesseract\tesseract.exe --list-langs
  C:\CFusionExtra\tesseract\tesseract.exe imagename outputbase [options...] [configfile...]

OCR options:
  -l LANG[+LANG]        Specify language(s) used for OCR.
NOTE: These options must occur before any configfile.

Single options:
  --help                Show this help message.
  --help-extra          Show extra help for advanced users.
  --version             Show version information.
  --list-langs          List available languages for tesseract engine.
```