Install latest/stable of Tesseract (UNOFFICIAL)

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

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sudo snap install tesseract

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Details for Tesseract (UNOFFICIAL)

Package name

tesseract

License

Proprietary

Last updated

23 August 2024 - latest/stable
4 March 2026 - latest/edge

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open source optical character recognition engine

Tesseract has unicode (UTF-8) support, and can recognize more than 100 languages "out of the box". It can be trained to recognize other languages. Tesseract supports various output formats: plain-text, hocr(html), pdf.

If you want to access the files under /media/* or /run/media/* you'll have to connect the snap to the core snap's removable-media interface:

 $ sudo snap connect tesseract:removable-media

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