tesseract:tldr:524d6
tesseract: Specify a custom language (default is English) with an ISO 639-2 code (e.g. deu = Deutsch = German).
$ tesseract -l deu ${image-png} ${output}
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This command is using Tesseract, an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, to extract text from an image file with German text. Here is the breakdown of each element of the command:
tesseract
is the command to execute the Tesseract OCR engine.-l deu
sets the language parameter to "deu," which represents the German language. It informs Tesseract to use the German language model for recognizing text.${image-png}
specifies the input image file. It should be replaced with the actual name or path of the image file you want to process.${output}
specifies the output file where the extracted text will be saved. It should also be replaced with the desired name or path for the output file.
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