Test with a simple image:

tesseract --version Expected output includes version number, build information, and supported image formats.

tesseract C:\path\to\sample.png stdout 4.1 Using Chocolatey (Advanced users) choco install tesseract 4.2 Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) For developers preferring Linux tools on Windows:

| Task | Command | |------|---------| | Check version | tesseract --version | | OCR to text file | tesseract input.png output | | OCR with specific language | tesseract input.png stdout -l fra | | List installed languages | tesseract --list-langs |