How can i have Tessaract on Windows?

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I am working on a Text Recognition Solution and I need to use Tesseract on Windows OS.

Is there a command line to know if it's already installed? If not how can I get it?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '19 at 13:01

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Installer for Windows for Tesseract 3.05 and Tesseract 4 are available from Tesseract at UB Mannheim. You can read more about it here. You need to install it, windows does not come preinstalled.

answered Oct 14 '19 at 13:01

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '20 at 20:13

You need to install tesseract using windows installer available here. Then you should install the python wrapper as:

pip install pytesseract

Then you should also set the tesseract path in your script after importing pytesseract library as below (Please do not forget that installation path might be modified in your case!):

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

How can i have Tessaract on Windows?

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