# Tesseract OCR Data Extractor

> Extracts structured data from scanned documents using Tesseract OCR engine with LSTM models. Supports table detection via OpenCV contour analysis and outputs to CSV, JSON, or Pandas DataFrames.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/tesseract-ocr-data-extractor` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/tesseract-ocr-data-extractor`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/tesseract-ocr-data-extractor/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Data & Analytics
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/tesseract-ocr-data-extractor

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# Tesseract OCR Data Extractor

Extracts structured data from scanned documents using Tesseract OCR engine with LSTM models. Supports table detection via OpenCV contour analysis and outputs to CSV, JSON, or Pandas DataFrames.

## Prerequisites

Tesseract OCR, OpenCV

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- **NOTE**: This software depends on other packages that may be licensed under different open source licenses.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- It also needs [traineddata](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files.html) files which support the legacy engine, for example those from the [tessdata](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata) repository.
- Basic **[command line usage](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Command-Line-Usage.html)**:
- Examples can be found in the [documentation](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Command-Line-Usage.html#simplest-invocation-to-ocr-an-image).

- Source: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/tesseract-ocr-data-extractor/)