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More install instructions for pytesseract
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Expand Up @@ -49,11 +49,7 @@ Install *spacypdfreader* using pip:
pip install spacypdfreader
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To install with the required pytesseract dependencies:

```bash
pip install 'spacypdfreader[pytesseract]'
```
For details on how to install and use *spacypdfreader* with pytesseract see the docs: [https://samedwardes.github.io/spacypdfreader/parsers/#pytesseract](https://samedwardes.github.io/spacypdfreader/parsers/#pytesseract).

## Usage

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Expand Up @@ -69,7 +69,34 @@ You can install most of the dependencies by pip installing *spacypdfreader* with
pip install 'spacypdfreader[pytesseract]'
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Unfortunately this will not always install all of the dependencies because some of them are non-python related. I find that installing pytesseract can be a little bit tricky for beginners. Please refer to [https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract#installation](https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract#installation) for details on how to install *pytesseract* if the above does not work.
For pytesseract to work you have to install some additional tools. Installing pytesseract can be a little bit tricky for beginners. Please refer to [https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract#installation](https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract#installation) for details on how to install *pytesseract* if the above does not work.

### Linux

```bash
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt install libtesseract-dev
```

### Mac

```bash
brew install poppler
brew install tesseract
```

### Windows

To install poppler see the instructions here [https://stackoverflow.com/a/53960829](https://stackoverflow.com/a/53960829).

Then install tesseract with:

```bash
scoop install tesseract
```

Or you can follow the instructions here to install tesseract using the windows installer: [https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki](https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki).

**Usage**

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