tesseract-ocr / tesseract
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Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git && cd tesseract. Build system uses CMake (CMakeLists.txt present in src/training/ and implied project root); conventional build: mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make. Exact configure flags and dependency installation require inspecting the full CMakeLists.txt and any build/ or INSTALL documentation not shown in the provided snippet.
After building with CMake (cmake .. && make in build/), run OCR on an image: ./tesseract input_image.png output (outputs output.txt). For hOCR output: ./tesseract input_image.png output pdf or ./tesseract input_image.png output hocr. See README for full command-line options. Programmatic use requires linking libtesseract via C++ (src/api/baseapi.cpp) or C API (src/api/capi.cpp).