I got the best results by using it in combination with GNU's parallel.
export OMP_THREAD_LIMIT=1
ls -U | parallel 'tesseract -l <lang> ./{} ./../extraction/{}'-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/dff596cb-84b7-46d5-9e6c-34009f6e5aa5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

