tesseract

Use it when

• open-source OCR for images and scanned PDFs
• extract text from screenshots offline

What it solves

Not the fit when

• layout-perfect table recovery alone

Install

brew install tesseract  # or apt install tesseract-ocr

Invoke

tesseract image.png stdout -l eng  # OCR scanned pages before RAG.

Alternatives

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