Installation

Follow the steps below to install ocred locally.

Create a virtual environment

Create and activate a virtual environment

python -m venv env

. env/bin/activate

Install OCRed

• Install Tesseract for your OS and add it to PATH

The installation guide is available here

• pip magic

OCRed uses modern Python packaging and can be installed using pip -

python -m pip install ocred

Build OCRed from source

If you want to develop OCRed, or use its latest commit (!can be unstable!), you might want to install it from the source -

• Install Tesseract for your OS and add it to PATH

The installation guide is available here

• Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/Saransh-cpp/OCRed

• Change directory

cd OCRed

• Install the package in editable mode with the "dev" dependencies

python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"

Feel free to read our Contributing Guide for more information on developing OCRed.