What is tesseract-data?

[ManjaroDevOps]

@discobot

2026-07-23

Plasma Users - updating spectacle will pull tesseract

If you are using Plasma - spectacle has new dependency on tesseract for OCR recognition.

The long choice list is languages supported by tesseract - so look more closely you will find e.g. 25 - tesseract-data-deu for German.

The part you will be looking for is the last three (3) characters of the package name.

This is a new OCR feature of Spectacle

@ButterflyMelissa

an AI thing?

It is local OCR - no AI involved - in fact tesseract is a very, very old application