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+## installing tesseract on MacOSX
+
+brew install tesseract
+brew install libtesseract-dev
+tesseract --list-langs
+ 
+cd /opt/homebrew/share/tessdata
+curl -LO https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/raw/main/jpn.traineddata
+