How to Install Tesseract OCR on Windows and use it with Python

This is a walkthrough for installing tesseract on Windows and configuring it to be able to programatically use it with Python.

As a bonus I show how you can parallelized execution with the multiprocessing package Pool module on Windows.

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00:00 Intro/What is Tesseract
00:55 Installing pytesseract with pip
01:55 Installing Tesseract OCR exe
04:00 Extracting text
04:12 Adding Tesseract to Path
09:45 Creating a function to classify documents
19:50 A bit about what an image file really is
22:10 Handling errors gracefully
22:35 Adding Return Codes
26:15 Vertical Scaling using Multiprocessing
30:00 Putting it all together
35:00 Demo of how multiprocessing doesn't work in a notebook on Windows
36:14 Conclusion

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