Minimum required files for Simplest Invocation to OCR an image

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Michael Lee

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Apr 5, 2025, 1:53:45 PMApr 5

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Tesseract installation includes 135 files. Which of these are required for the simplest invocation to OCR an image? I wish to embed simple tesseract OCR capabilities into an application, excluding all unnecessary files.

For example: tesseract imagename outputbase

Where English is the default language and 3 is the Page Segmentation Mode. The default output format is text.

Many thanks to anyone who has gone this route before and can lend some insight.

Mike

zdenop

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Apr 7, 2025, 1:03:00 AMApr 7

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Tesseract installation includes 135 files.

Can you be more specific? E.g. how did you install tesseract? Which OS?

I wish to embed simple tesseract OCR capabilities

You mean to use the tesseract API? Or calling tesseract as an external program? Or?

I am afraid you need to first understand how tesseract works and on that you could make a decision which files you will need...