When collecting data for the text mining process or looking for other references, we often find sources in the form of images. For example, if we are going to analyze a word in pdf format, the file instead contains an image of text. This certainly makes it difficult for data processing. One solution to this problem is that we can use Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
OCR is a technology for recognizing text in images, such as scanned documents and photos. One of the OCR tools that are often used is Tesseract. Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. It was originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software. Later Google took over development.

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