WindowsEnv.md

Download OCRmyPDF on Windows

Step1. Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator

Step2. Download Chocolatey

Run the following command,

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Step2. Download Required Packages Using Chocolatey

choco install --pre tesseract

choco install ghostscript

choco install pngquant

Step3. Download OCRmyPDF Using PIP

python -m pip install ocrmypdf

Step4. Download Required Languages

Download

• chi_tra.traineddata
• chi_sim.traineddata
• jpn.traineddata
• deu.traineddata
• spa.traineddata

from https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/ and place it in C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tessdata (or wherever Tesseract OCR is installed).

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That's it. You have successfully setup OCRmyPdf on Windows!