tesseract --version Using Homebrew (recommended):
Here’s a clear, step-by-step guide to downloading and installing Tesseract OCR on the most common operating systems. The official installer is maintained by UB Mannheim. tesseract ocr download
pip install pytesseract pillow Then in Python: tesseract ocr download
tesseract --list-langs # shows installed languages Basic OCR test: tesseract ocr download
from PIL import Image import pytesseract pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe' text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('sample.png')) print(text) 5. Testing your installation Run this in terminal/command prompt: