Simon Willison’s Weblog

18th July 2021

TIL Using the tesseract CLI tool — Tesseract OCR has a command-line utility which is woefully under-documented. Thanks to [Alexandru Nedelcu](https://alexn.org/blog/2020/11/11/organize-index-screenshots-ocr-macos.html) I figured out how to use it today.

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Posted 18th July 2021 at 4:56 pm

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