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:

   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:

   rm tesseract.rb