The tesseract package provides an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine and command-line program used to extract printed text from images.
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/5.5.3/tesseract-5.5.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 561b6b104238fffa1d00362ac72ea397
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 210 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
Install tesseract by running the following commands:
./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
The package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install