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white elm Aug 11, 2023, 2:55 AM

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Hi,
I would like to run an python API to use OCR function from pytesseract, but it needs to install the tesseract from google. Any idea how to do it in Railway?

jaunty summitBOT Aug 11, 2023, 2:55 AM

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white elm Aug 11, 2023, 2:56 AM

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N/A

velvet geode Aug 11, 2023, 3:05 AM

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but it needs to install the tesseract from google
please provide more information

white elm Aug 11, 2023, 3:19 AM

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I need to install a binary in windows or run $brew install tesseract on MAC to be able to use the library pytesseract.

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https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/

tessdoc

Tesseract User Manual

Tesseract documentation

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I don't know if it is possible to install it someway in railway, or if I need to have it in a docker, and run everything from there

velvet geode Aug 11, 2023, 3:24 AM

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it looks like it's available as a nix package
add this nixpacks.toml file to your project

[phases.setup]
nixPkgs = ["...", "tesseract"]

white elm Aug 11, 2023, 3:31 AM

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That is great. I will test. Thank you

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