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Tesseract OCR · Image OCR, scanned text, and document extraction from the terminal.

$ brew install tesseract
One-liner to try
$ tesseract image.png stdout

Agent pack

Copy into an agent

A markdown-ready setup brief with install, verify, safe starting commands, and guardrails for AI agents.

Open .md
Readiness
Usable with guardrails · 60/100
Verify
tesseract --version
Agent URL
/cli/tesseract/agent.md

Quick reference

Installbrew install tesseract
Verifytesseract --version
First commandtesseract image.png stdout

About

Image OCR, scanned text, and document extraction from the terminal. Built by Tesseract OCR. Runs entirely on your machine.

Example workflow

1. tesseract image.png stdout

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