Installing Tesseract on macOS devices

Tesseract-OCR is an open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that converts text within images into machine-readable text. Coro leverages Tesseract to identify and scan sensitive information from image files during data scans on macOS endpoint devices.

To install Tesseract-OCR on a macOS device:

  1. Install Homebrew .
  2. Execute the following commands from the terminal:
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    echo "export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1" >> $HOME/.zprofile
    curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/b5241b4bb5095fd62457223c4fb32a56f882ef48/Formula/tesseract.rb
    brew install --formula ./tesseract.rb
    brew pin tesseract
  3. (Optional) Execute the following cleanup command from the terminal:
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    rm tesseract.rb