Installation

CutDetector

CutDetector itself is self contained and can run from where it was downloaded or copied to.

Note

On macOS you may sometimes get a warning about a corrupt app bundle. To fix this, you can try the following:

Once this is released for good I will look into paying the fee to Apple to certify the app bundle properly so this should go away.

Tesseract

Tesseract OCR is an open-source tool for extracting text from images.

Installing on Windows

Windows

1. Download installer
   • Get the official Windows build from UB Mannheim (most commonly used distribution):
   • Tesseract Windows Installer
2. Install
   • Run the installer
   • Choose install location (default is usually fine)
   • Make sure “Add to PATH” is checked (important)
3. Verify install

Open Command Prompt:

tesseract --version

Installing on macOS

macOS

Option 1: Homebrew (recommended)

If you don’t have Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Install Tesseract:

brew install tesseract

Verify:

tesseract --version

Installing on Linux

Linux

aptdnf

Installation:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

(Optional) install extra languages:

sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-fra

Installation:

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install tesseract-ocr

(Optional) install extra languages:

sudo dnf install tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-fra

Verify:

tesseract --version

Optional: Language Packs

Tesseract uses separate language data files.

• Windows: included in installer or added manually
• macOS/Linux:

  sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-deu   # German example
  

Or download trained data files from here

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ffmpeg

FFmpeg is a command-line tool for converting, recording, and processing audio/video.

Installing on Windows

Windows

Installing on macOS

macOS

Installing on Linux

Linux