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Install Tesseract on Windows

Rachel Cheyfitz
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Coro can scan image files when performing sensitive data scans on Windows endpoint devices. To do so, ensure that Tesseract is installed on those devices.

To install Tesseract on a Windows device:

  1. Download and execute the Tesseract exe installation file: https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5.2.0.20220712.exe
  2. From the Installation wizard Language data is configured in English:
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  3. Copy the destination folder path to the clipboard (for example C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR).
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  4. Paste the path as a system variable:
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  5. Create a new system variable with the following configuration:
    • Variable name: TESSDATA_PREFIX
    • Variable value: C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata
  6. From the terminal (command line) run: 
    • tesseract -v
  7. Verify that you can find Tesseract v5.2.0.20220712 on the device.

 

 

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