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# tesseract
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> OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine.
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> More information: <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/main/doc/tesseract.1.asc>.
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- Recognize text in an image and save it to the given path (a `.txt` extension is added automatically):
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`tesseract {{path/to/image.png}} {{path/to/output_file}}`
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- Specify a custom [l]anguage (default is English) with an ISO 639-2 code (e.g. deu = Deutsch = German):
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`tesseract -l deu {{path/to/image.png}} {{path/to/output}}`
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- List the ISO 639-2 codes of installed languages:
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`tesseract --list-langs`
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- Specify a custom [p]age [s]egmentation [m]ode (default is 3):
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`tesseract --psm {{0..13}} {{path/to/image.png}} {{path/to/output}}`
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- List page segmentation modes and their descriptions:
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`tesseract --help-psm`
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