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Setting up Tesseract on Ubuntu 18.04
I was presented with a task to quickly prepare a bare-metal Linux machine to run Tesseract OCR for optical character recognition task. In my tests, the Tesseract 5 was far more precise than Tesseract 4, no matter what options, configurations and pre-processing I tried (and I tried a lot of them!).
Ubuntu apparently came without SSH enabled by default https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-enable-ssh-on-ubuntu-18-04/: sudo apt install openssh-server sudo systemctl enable ssh.service --now
To install node-red [source](sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red): sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red
Install Tesseract OCR 5.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 https://techviewleo.com/how-to-install-tesseract-ocr-on-ubuntu/: sudo apt update sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr-devel sudo apt install -y tesseract-ocr tessdata_ocrb
Ubuntu apparently came without SSH enabled by default https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-enable-ssh-on-ubuntu-18-04/: sudo apt install openssh-server sudo systemctl enable ssh.service --now
To install node-red [source](sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red): sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red
Install Tesseract OCR 5.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 https://techviewleo.com/how-to-install-tesseract-ocr-on-ubuntu/: sudo apt update sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr-devel sudo apt install -y tesseract-ocr tessdata_ocrb
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