tesseract
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine. More information: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.
- Recognize text in an image and save it to
output.txt(the.txtextension 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