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title: "OCR Extract Text"
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# OCR Extract Text

**Type:** `lib.ocr.ExtractText`

**Namespace:** `lib.ocr`

## Description

Extract plain text from an image using Tesseract OCR.
    ocr, image, text, recognition, tesseract

## Properties

_(none)_

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| output | `str` |  |

## Related Nodes

Browse other nodes in the [lib.ocr](./) namespace.