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:
- Install Homebrew .
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Execute the following commands from the terminal:
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
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(Optional) Execute the following cleanup command from the terminal:
rm tesseract.rb