tesseract

Install command:

brew install tesseract

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine

https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/

License: Apache-2.0

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/tesseract.json

Formula code: tesseract.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:


macOS on Apple Silicon	sequoia	✅
	sonoma	✅
	ventura	✅
macOS on Intel	sonoma	✅
macOS on Intel	ventura	✅

Linux	ARM64	✅
Linux	x86_64	✅

Current versions:

stable	✅	5.5.1
head	⚡️	HEAD

Depends on:

cairo	1.18.4	Vector graphics library with cross-device output support
fontconfig	2.16.0	XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
glib	2.84.3	Core application library for C
harfbuzz	11.3.3	OpenType text shaping engine
icu4c@77	77.1	C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
leptonica	1.85.0	Image processing and image analysis library
libarchive	3.8.1	Multi-format archive and compression library
pango	1.56.4	Framework for layout and rendering of i18n text
freetype	2.13.3	Software library to render fonts
gettext	0.26	GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf	2.72	Automatic configure script builder
automake	1.18.1	Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
libtool	2.5.4	Generic library support script
pkgconf	2.5.1	Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

This formula contains only the "eng", "osd", and "snum" language data files.
If you need any other supported languages, run `brew install tesseract-lang`.

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Installs (30 days)
`tesseract`	63,007
`tesseract --HEAD`	40
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`tesseract`	46
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`tesseract`	1,161,488
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