docs/install_ocrmypdf.md

Linux

• Run apt-get install ocrmypdf
• Install ghostscript > 9.55 by following these instructions or running scripts/install/ghostscript_install.sh.
• Run pip install ocrmypdf
• Install any tesseract language packages that you want (example apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng)
• Set the tesseract data folder path
  • Find the tesseract data folder tessdata with find / -name tessdata. Make sure to use the one corresponding to the latest tesseract version if you have multiple.
  • Create a local.env file in the root marker folder with TESSDATA_PREFIX=/path/to/tessdata inside it

Mac

Only needed if using ocrmypdf as the ocr backend.

• Run brew install ocrmypdf
• Run brew install tesseract-lang to add language support
• Run pip install ocrmypdf
• Set the tesseract data folder path
  • Find the tesseract data folder tessdata with brew list tesseract
  • Create a local.env file in the root marker folder with TESSDATA_PREFIX=/path/to/tessdata inside it

Windows

• Install ocrmypdf and ghostscript by following these instructions
• Run pip install ocrmypdf
• Install any tesseract language packages you want
• Set the tesseract data folder path
  • Find the tesseract data folder tessdata with brew list tesseract
  • Create a local.env file in the root marker folder with TESSDATA_PREFIX=/path/to/tessdata inside it