image-ocr

name	image-ocr
description	Extract text from images using Tesseract OCR
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Image OCR

Extract text from images using Tesseract OCR. Supports multiple languages and image formats including PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and BMP.

Commands

# Extract text from an image (default: English)
image-ocr "screenshot.png"

# Extract text with a specific language
image-ocr "document.jpg" --lang eng

Dependencies

This skill requires:

• tesseract-ocr — the OCR engine binary
• pytesseract — Python wrapper for tesseract
• Pillow — Python imaging library

Install Python dependencies

pip install pytesseract Pillow

Install tesseract OCR engine

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr

Linux (Fedora/RHEL):

sudo dnf install tesseract

macOS:

brew install tesseract

Windows:

winget install UB-Mannheim.Tesseract

Or download the installer from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki