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ocr-command-line-tool
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OCR Command Line tool (OCR-CLT) is a global Node package that uses OCR technology to extract text from images. It is based on the Tesseract JS OCR library, so it is very efficient.
Using npm:
$ npm install -g npm
$ npm install -g ocr-command-line-tool
In CLI:
$ ocr --img '<path to image>' --file '<save to file name>'
OCR-CLT text recognition easy with a simple command. Beyond this, most other competitors are made as API's, which come with hefty fees. Here, you can use the tool right from your own computer for free! Additionally you can take advantage of all the power your computer has.
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Scan images on CLI
The npm package ocr-command-line-tool receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, ocr-command-line-tool popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ocr-command-line-tool demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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