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tesseract

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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

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

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

Quick reference

Install
brew install tesseract
Verify
tesseract --version
First command
tesseract image.png stdout
Machine JSON
/cli/tesseract.json

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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