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