Obsidian/05.01 Computer setup/Tesseract.md

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Tag: ["🤖", "💻", "CommandLine", "OCR"]
Date: 2021-08-10
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Parent:: [[Applications]]

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```button
name Edit Product parameters
type command
action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit
id EditMetaData
```
^button-TesseractMDEdit

```button
name Save
type command
action Save current file
id Save
```
^button-TesseractSave

 

# Tesseract

 

```ad-abstract
title: Summary
collapse: open
Picture reader with OCR technology
```

 

```toc
style: number
```

 

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### Resource

[Link to resource](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)

 

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### Script

 

1. Convert PDF to image (FileJuicer)


2. In Terminal, run

```ad-command
~~~
tesseract [input] [output] -l fra
~~~
```

[Language guide](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/doc/tesseract.1.asc#languages)

3. In Terminal, to run a batch of files

```ad-command
~~~
for I in Part_1_to_p_27-*.jpg; do echo $I; tesseract $I $(basename $i .jpg) -l fra; done
~~~
```

4. In Terminal, to move txt files

```ad-command
~~~
mv *.txt /users/mel/documents/lebv.org/website/resource/contents/booklet/text
~~~
```

5. In Terminal, to concatenate txt

```ad-command
~~~
cat Part_1_to_p_27-{1..30}.txt >> sorted_combined.txt 2>/dev/null
~~~
```