Tesseract

Tesseract OCR is an open-source command-line OCR engine used to extract text from images, scanned documents, and PDF-converted image files. It is widely used by developers, administrators, and automation workflows for optical character recognition tasks.

The solution supports common OCR workflows including image-to-text conversion, scanned document processing, multilingual OCR, command-line automation, and integration with scripts or backend applications. It is ideal for document processing, data extraction, text recognition, and computer vision use cases.

Version: Tesseract OCR 5.5.0-1build1 on Ubuntu 26.04

Features of Tesseract OCR:

• Command-line OCR engine for extracting text from images.
• Supports multiple image formats including PNG, JPG, TIFF, and BMP.
• Supports multilingual OCR using language data packages.
• Can process scanned documents and PDF pages converted to images.
• Suitable for automation, scripting, and backend integration.
• Open-source OCR engine with wide Linux support.

Usage instructions for Tesseract OCR
$ sudo su
$ apt update
$ apt install -y tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr-eng
$ tesseract --version
$ tesseract image.png output
$ cat output.txt

For direct terminal output, use:

tesseract image.png stdout

For English OCR, use:

tesseract image.png stdout -l eng

Credentials: No credentials are required because Tesseract OCR is a command-line tool.

Access the application:
Connect to the Azure Ubuntu VM using SSH and run Tesseract commands from the terminal.
No browser URL or web port is required.

Default Port: Not required

Disclaimer: Tesseract OCR is provided “as is” under applicable open-source licenses. Users are responsible for validating OCR accuracy, installing required language packages, and ensuring proper handling of input documents and extracted text. This solution is best suited for OCR automation, document processing, and text extraction workflows on Linux environments.