To install Tesseract OCR with support for all languages on Windows, you can follow these steps:


  1. Download the installer package for Tesseract OCR from the official website: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
  2. Run the installer package, and follow the prompts to complete the installation.
  3. Download the language data files for all languages from the official website: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata
  4. Extract the downloaded language data files and copy them to the "tessdata" folder located in the installation directory of Tesseract OCR. The default installation directory is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR".
  5. Open Command Prompt and navigate to the installation directory by running the command: cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR"
  6. Verify that Tesseract OCR has been installed correctly by running the command tesseract --version which should display the version of Tesseract OCR installed on your system.


Alternatively, you can install only specific languages, you need to download the language data files for the specific languages, and place them in the "tessdata" folder.


You can check the list of installed languages by running the command tesseract --list-langs

Please note that the above steps are for 64-bit systems, for 32-bit systems the path would be "C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR"