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Chris A. Mattmann commented on TIKA-93:
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Hi [~twigbranch] thanks for the comment, please see:
https://wiki.apache.org/tika/TikaOCR
Are you sure you have installed Tesseract with TIFF support? The wiki page
above has some instructions for Mac and brew to get Tesseract with libTIFF.
> OCR support
> -----------
>
> Key: TIKA-93
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: parser
> Reporter: Jukka Zitting
> Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.7
>
> Attachments: Petr_tika-config.xml, TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch,
> TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch, TesseractOCRParser.patch,
> TesseractOCRParser.patch, TesseractOCR_Tyler.patch,
> TesseractOCR_Tyler_v2.patch, TesseractOCR_Tyler_v3.patch,
> TesseractOCR_Tyler_v4.patch, testOCR.docx, testOCR.pdf, testOCR.pptx
>
>
> I don't know of any decent open source pure Java OCR libraries, but there are
> command line OCR tools like Tesseract
> (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) that could be invoked by Tika to
> extract text content (where available) from image files.
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