Table of Contents

Introduction

Installing Tesseract

Installation instructions for tesseract are available here

Linux:

OS X:

sudo port install imagemagick
sudo port install tesseract
sudo port install tesseract-eng

Use Tesseract

convert PDF to 8-bit TIFF

convert -density 300 -fill white -draw 'rectangle 10,10 20,20' -background white -alpha Off TechnoCommercialLease.pdf -depth 8 file.tiff
tesseract file.tiff output