Tesseract setup

The following steps should install Tesseract on a CentOS machine.

1. installing tesseract

   • For me, a search was required before tesseract was recognized as a package so run: sudo yum search tesseract
   • Then run: sudo yum install tesseract
   • This will also install dependency "leptonica"

2. run a simple test

   • Create a .png file that is very plain with obvious, easy to read text on it.
   • Run: tesseract <filename>.png stdout