Once you have WinGet installed, you can install Tesseract via WinGet with a simple command. Open a PowerShell or Command Prompt window and type the following command:
winget install -e --id UB-Mannheim.TesseractOCR
This will install the latest version of Tesseract and its dependencies on your system. You can verify the installation by typing the following command:
tesseract --version
This will show you the version and the supported languages of Tesseract. You can also list the available languages by typing the following command:
tesseract --list-langs
If you want to install additional languages or scripts, you can download the corresponding data files from the Tesseract GitHub repository and place them in the tessdata folder, which is usually located at C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata. You can find the list of supported languages and scripts on the Tesseract wiki page.
Using Tesseract easily with Text Grab
By itself the only way to interact with Tesseract is with the command line. With Text Grab you can select Tesseract languages and use it anywhere! Just like taking a screenshot except copy the text from the image instead of the pixels from the screen.
Text Grab also has a convenient UI for installing more Tesseract languages.
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