tesseract

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine.

• Recognize text in an image and save it to `output.txt` (the `.txt` extension is added automatically):

tesseract {image.png} {output}

• Specify a custom language (default is English) with an ISO 639-2 code (e.g. deu = Deutsch = German):

tesseract -l deu {image.png} {output}

• List the ISO 639-2 codes of available languages:

tesseract --list-langs

• Specify a custom page segmentation mode (default is 3):

tesseract -psm {0_to_10} {image.png} {output}

• List page segmentation modes and their descriptions:

tesseract --help-psm

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