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📜 How to Run Tesseract OCR for Hindi-English Language: Full Setup, Best Config & Sample Result

4 min readApr 18, 2025

“In the land of paper and print, where fonts flow in Devanagari and Roman might, a scribe named Tesseract reads them all, both black on white and white on black.”

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the wizardry that lets machines read text from images — scanned documents, photographs, and more. While English OCR is straightforward, adding Hindi (Devanagari script) to the mix adds a cultural and technical twist. But fear not! Today, we’ll unravel the setup to make Tesseract OCR work for both Hindi and English — gracefully, powerfully, and precisely.

To Check OCR-Comparison (Tesseract, EasyOCR, DocTR, PaddleOCR, MMOCR, Keras-OCR, TrOCR, SmolDocling) —

https://adityamangal98.medium.com/a-researchers-deep-dive-comparing-top-ocr-frameworks-ca6327b3cc86?sk=4ab0e2aa8acff6d2ca37702f14904e79

https://github.com/adityamangal1998/OCR-Comparision

🌟 Why Tesseract?

Tesseract is an open-source OCR engine originally developed by HP and now maintained by Google. It supports 100+ languages and is surprisingly accurate, especially when tuned properly.

🧰 Step-by-Step Setup

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Aditya Mangal
Aditya Mangal

Written by Aditya Mangal

Tech enthusiast weaving stories of code and life. Writing about innovation, reflection, and the timeless dance between mind and heart.

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