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Chris A. Mattmann commented on TIKA-93:
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Hi [~twigbranch] thanks for the comment, please see:

https://wiki.apache.org/tika/TikaOCR

Are you sure you have installed Tesseract with TIFF support? The wiki page above has some instructions for Mac and brew to get Tesseract with libTIFF.

> OCR support
> -----------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-93
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: parser
>            Reporter: Jukka Zitting
>            Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.7
>
>         Attachments: Petr_tika-config.xml, TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch, TesseractOCRParser.patch, TesseractOCRParser.patch, TesseractOCR_Tyler.patch, TesseractOCR_Tyler_v2.patch, TesseractOCR_Tyler_v3.patch, TesseractOCR_Tyler_v4.patch, testOCR.docx, testOCR.pdf, testOCR.pptx
>
>
> I don't know of any decent open source pure Java OCR libraries, but there are command line OCR tools like Tesseract (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) that could be invoked by Tika to extract text content (where available) from image files.



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