Command-line tool

tesseract

brew/tesseract

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OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id Tesseract.Tesseract.Stable -e
scoop install tesseract

macOS

brew install tesseract

Linux

brew install tesseract

Recognize text in an image and save it to the given path (a `.txt` extension is added automatically)

tesseract path/to/image.png path/to/output_file

Specify a custom [l]anguage (default is English) with an ISO 639-2 code (e.g. deu = Deutsch = German)

tesseract -l deu path/to/image.png path/to/output_file

List the ISO 639-2 codes of installed languages

tesseract --list-langs

Browse

• OCR (text from images)

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