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Before you run the demos

Salvador Díaz Fau edited this page Feb 4, 2026 · 1 revision

Windows

The Tesseract binaries found in the bin32 and bin64 directories were built in Windows 11 and they also work fine in Windows 10 but you will need to build the Tesseract project again if your application needs to support older Windows versions.

Read this document to know all the information about building the Tesseract binaries.

The Tesseract project also requires having the Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable package which is available here.

The installer of that package only works in recent Windows versions and you might have to install an older redistributable package version if your application needs to run in older Windows versions. Older versions can be downloaded from here or here.

Linux

The Tesseract binaries for Linux can be installed using the following command in Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint:

sudo apt install libtesseract-dev libleptonica-dev

If your distribution doesn't have a package for the Tesseract binaries you can build them using this guide.

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