Install tesseract on Ubuntu/Linux
Installing tesseract:
If you are using the Ubuntu, simply use apt-get to install Tesseract:
$ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
Verifying tesseract:
$ tesseract -v
tesseract 3.04.01
leptonica-1.73
libgif 5.1.2 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2) : libpng 1.2.54 : libtiff 4.0.6 : zlib 1.2.8 : libwebp 0.4.4 : libopenjp2 2.1.2
Stack Trace:
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liblept5 libopenjp2-7 libtesseract3 libwebp5 tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-equ tesseract-ocr-osd
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liblept5 libopenjp2-7 libtesseract3 libwebp5 tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-equ tesseract-ocr-osd
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