# Install tesseract with Homebrew, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget, zypper OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine. Version 5.5.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:tesseract ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install tesseract ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install tesseract ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/tesseract/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install libtesseract-dev ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: libtesseract-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install mingw32-tesseract ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mingw32-tesseract from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#tesseract ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: tesseract from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S tesseract ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: tesseract from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install tesseract ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: tesseract from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install tesseract ``` Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: tesseract from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','telegram.install' - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/tesseract ``` Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/tesseract.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id Tesseract.Tesseract.Stable -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Tesseract.Tesseract.Stable from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:tesseract - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 5.5.2 - **Source summary:** OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - ambiguous_words (cli) - classifier_tester (cli) - cntraining (cli) - combine_lang_model (cli) - combine_tessdata (cli) - dawg2wordlist (cli) - lstmeval (cli) - lstmtraining (cli) - merge_unicharsets (cli) - mftraining (cli) - set_unicharset_properties (cli) - shapeclustering (cli) - tesseract (cli) - text2image (cli) - unicharset_extractor (cli) - wordlist2dawg (cli) - ambiguous_words (alias) - classifier_tester (alias) - cntraining (alias) - combine_lang_model (alias) - combine_tessdata (alias) - dawg2wordlist (alias) - lstmeval (alias) - lstmtraining (alias) - merge_unicharsets (alias) - mftraining (alias) - set_unicharset_properties (alias) - shapeclustering (alias) - tesseract (alias) - text2image (alias) - unicharset_extractor (alias) - wordlist2dawg (alias) ## Dependencies - cairo - fontconfig - freetype - gettext - glib - harfbuzz - icu4c@78 - leptonica - libarchive - pango ## Build dependencies - autoconf - automake - libtool - pkgconf ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Caveats: This formula contains only the "eng", "osd", and "snum" language data files. If you need any other supported languages, run `brew install tesseract-lang`. - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 5.5.2 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract - Upstream latest detected: 5.5.2 (current) - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## Project history and usage Tesseract is one of the canonical open-source OCR engines and includes both libtesseract and the `tesseract` command-line program. Official docs describe an Apache-licensed OCR engine usable from the shell or through C and C++ APIs, with Unicode support, trained data for more than 100 languages, and output formats including plain text, hOCR, searchable PDF, TSV, ALTO, and PAGE. ### Project history Tesseract began as a Hewlett-Packard OCR engine developed at HP Laboratories Bristol and HP Greeley between 1985 and 1994. HP later made Windows and C++ changes, open-sourced the project in 2005, and Google developed it from 2006 until August 2017. The modern project is maintained in the tesseract-ocr GitHub organization. The official README names Stefan Weil as current lead developer, Ray Smith as lead developer until 2017, and Zdenko Podobny as maintainer. Tesseract 4 introduced an LSTM neural-network recognizer, and version 5 became the current stable major line with release 5.0.0 on November 30, 2021. ### Adoption history Tesseract's adoption is unusually broad for a CLI package because it sits at the boundary between desktop utilities, archival workflows, library APIs, and machine-learning-era OCR. Package metadata lists it across Homebrew, Chocolatey, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, Ubuntu, winget, and openSUSE, reflecting long-term cross-platform demand. ### How it is used The classic package-manager usage is `tesseract imagename outputbase`, optionally adding language, OCR engine mode, page segmentation mode, and config files. Users install language data, run OCR from shell scripts, generate text or searchable PDFs, and let higher-level wrappers call libtesseract where an application needs embedded OCR. ### Why package nerds care Tesseract is a package-nerd landmark because installing it correctly is often half the battle: the engine, traineddata files, image libraries, compiler flags, and wrapper bindings must line up. It is also a rare package where command-line users, distro maintainers, data archivists, and application developers all care about the same executable. ### Timeline - 1985-1994: Hewlett-Packard develops the original Tesseract OCR engine. - 2005: HP open-sources Tesseract. - 2006: Official release notes list Tesseract 1.00 on June 17, 2006. - 2006-2017: Google develops Tesseract. - 2018: Tesseract 4.0.0 released with the LSTM-era OCR engine. - 2021: Tesseract 5.0.0 released on November 30, 2021. - 2025: Release notes list Tesseract 5.5.2 on December 26, 2025. ### Related projects - Tesseract is closely related to tessdata trained models, Leptonica image processing, OCRopus LSTM history, GUI front ends, language-specific wrappers, and document-processing tools that need OCR output. ### Sources - - - - - source_facts.package-manager lists broad package-manager coverage. ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger risk:** orange / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** tesseract - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - libtesseract-dev - 5.5.0-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libtesseract-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Development files for the tesseract command line OCR tool | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/ - Debian apt - libtesseract5 - 5.5.0-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libtesseract5 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Tesseract OCR library | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/ - Debian apt - tesseract-ocr - 5.5.0-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: tesseract-ocr from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Tesseract command line OCR tool | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/ - Debian apt - tesseract-ocr-all - 5.5.0-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: tesseract-ocr-all from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Tesseract OCR with all language and script packages | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/ - Nix - tesseract: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: tesseract from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - Ubuntu apt - libtesseract-dev - 5.3.4-1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libtesseract-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Development files for the tesseract command line OCR tool | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/ - Ubuntu apt - libtesseract5 - 5.3.4-1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libtesseract5 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Tesseract OCR library | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/ - Ubuntu apt - tesseract-ocr - 5.3.4-1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: tesseract-ocr from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Tesseract command line OCR tool | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/ - Ubuntu apt - tesseract-ocr-all - 5.3.4-1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: tesseract-ocr-all from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Tesseract OCR with all language and script packages | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/ - dnf - mingw32-tesseract - 5.5.2-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mingw32-tesseract from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | MinGW Windows tesseract-ocr library | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract - dnf - mingw32-tesseract-tools - 5.5.2-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mingw32-tesseract-tools from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | MinGW Windows tesseract-ocr library tools | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract - dnf - mingw64-tesseract - 5.5.2-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mingw64-tesseract from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | MinGW Windows tesseract-ocr library | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract - dnf - mingw64-tesseract-tools - 5.5.2-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mingw64-tesseract-tools from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | MinGW Windows tesseract-ocr library tools | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract - dnf - tesseract - 5.5.2-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: tesseract from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Raw OCR Engine | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract - dnf - tesseract-common - 5.5.2-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: tesseract-common from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Configuration files for ${name} | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract - dnf - tesseract-devel - 5.5.2-3.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: tesseract-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development files for tesseract | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract ## Related links - 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