Tesseract OCR: Installation and Usage on Ubuntu 16.04 | Linux Today

Tesseract OCR: Installation and Usage on Ubuntu 16.04

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Akshay Pai
May 4, 2017

Tesseract is one of the most powerful open source OCR engine available today. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This tutorial shows the installation and usage of Tesseract on Ubuntu 16.04.

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Akshay Pai

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