Install Tesseract on macOS

Coro can scan image files when performing sensitive data scans on macOS endpoint devices. To do so, ensure that Tesseract is installed on those devices.

To install Tesseract 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. Execute the following cleanup command (optional) from the terminal:
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    rm tesseract.rb