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syntax: markdown
tags: [tldr, common]
source: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git
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# tesseract
> OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine.
> More information: <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/main/doc/tesseract.1.asc>.
- Recognize text in an image and save it to the given path (a `.txt` extension is added automatically):
`tesseract {{path/to/image.png}} {{path/to/output_file}}`
- Specify a custom [l]anguage (default is English) with an ISO 639-2 code (e.g. deu = Deutsch = German):
`tesseract -l deu {{path/to/image.png}} {{path/to/output}}`
- List the ISO 639-2 codes of installed languages:
`tesseract --list-langs`
- Specify a custom [p]age [s]egmentation [m]ode (default is 3):
`tesseract --psm {{0..13}} {{path/to/image.png}} {{path/to/output}}`
- List page segmentation modes and their descriptions:
`tesseract --help-psm`