# OCR Tesseract problem
**URL:** https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188
**Category:** Get Help & Discuss
**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188 "2021-04-23T06:07:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Shubhamautomation](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Shubhamautomation)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/1 "2021-04-23T06:07:10Z")
Hello,
I am trying to read text from image using OCR tesseract but after running i am not getting any output in outputtext field. (See Snapshot)
I don’t how to use it ?
Also please tell how to extract data (like PAN number from PAN card )
Thank You !
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### Author:  [@rajanimhanta](https://community.automationedge.com/u/rajanimhanta)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/2 "2021-04-23T06:50:51Z")
Hi Shubham,
You have to give the tessdata master folder path in the Data Folder path.
below is link for tessdata master.
link : [GitHub - tesseract-ocr/tessdata: Trained models with support for legacy and LSTM OCR engine](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata)
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### Author:  [@Shubhamautomation](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Shubhamautomation)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 10:20am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/3 "2021-04-23T10:20:57Z")
I downloaded the zip file which was 230 mb.
when I was extracting the zip using win RAR it displayed currupted.
when i repaired it and and used in OCR tesseract steps , outputtext was blank
is there any other way to download the file?
if you could give some steps will be more better .
Thank you for hearing me
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### Author:  [@rajanimhanta](https://community.automationedge.com/u/rajanimhanta)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/4 "2021-04-23T13:32:26Z")
Can you put the attached jar in PS lib folder.[jai-imageio-core-1.4.0.jar](https://community.automationedge.com/uploads/short-url/zSeove3It558RbCBCATE6G65dZ5.jar) (613.3 KB)
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### Author:  [@Shubhamautomation](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Shubhamautomation)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/5 "2021-04-23T18:40:40Z")
Again i downloaded the tesseract ZIP file using WIFI which was 650 mb and extracted.
first tesseract data folder path applied(see snapshot)
then I tried with one jpg file and one pdf file and run
but no output in outputtext field
I also placed the jai-imageio-core.jar file in lib folder but same problem found
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### Author:  [@fbaldin](https://community.automationedge.com/u/fbaldin)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/6 "2021-04-25T12:14:26Z")
Please add a **Generate Rows** prior to the OCR Tesseract Step
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### Author:  [@Shubhamautomation](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Shubhamautomation)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/7 "2021-04-25T15:16:11Z")
Yes , I added Generate row and it is able to extract data from image.
**1 More Question:**
If I want to extract PAN number from PAN Card then how can I do this.
using OCR i able to extract all data from scanned document
But how to extract particular text from scanned document or image?
Can you help for this in step wise?
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### Author:  [@vijaykumar.naikwade](https://community.automationedge.com/u/vijaykumar.naikwade)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/8 "2021-04-28T12:13:52Z")
Please use the following regular expression using ‘Regex Evaluation’ plugin step to extract PAN number from the OCRed text.
^[A-Z]{5}[0-9]{4}[A-Z]{1}$
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### Author:  [@Shubhamautomation](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Shubhamautomation)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/9 "2021-04-28T12:45:23Z")
I tried but it returns. N
Means matvh not found
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### Author:  [@vijaykumar.naikwade](https://community.automationedge.com/u/vijaykumar.naikwade)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/10 "2021-04-28T13:36:33Z")
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### Author:  [@Shubhamautomation](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Shubhamautomation)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/11 "2021-04-29T04:36:54Z")
Still Not working !
if my input rows contains only PAN numbers then it works
But as i am extracting text from PAN card which consist of multiple text.
it is returning N.
**Question** : Do regular expression return the matched Result into field? or simply match the pattern and return boolean value.
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### Author:  [@Shubhamautomation](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Shubhamautomation)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/12 "2021-04-29T06:34:22Z")
**The String that i am getting AFTER OCR is**
e
mmmm
Permanent Account Number Card
ABABB0000M
T/ Name
S ot i
WM AAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBB
…
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### Author:  [@fbaldin](https://community.automationedge.com/u/fbaldin)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/13 "2021-05-01T12:49:37Z")
> [@vijaykumar.naikwade](#):
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> \[1\]{5}[0-9]{4}[A-Z]{1}$
Try adding . \* like the picture… see if that works:
* * *
1. A-Z
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### Author:  [@Shubhamautomation](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Shubhamautomation)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/14 "2021-05-02T07:26:35Z")
Yes it’s Working Fine Thank you!
What I did? I removed **ALL the space** from string after extracting From PAN CARD to make to it **single line**.
Now it working absolutely fine.
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### Author:  [@Arun9047](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Arun9047)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/ocr-tesseract-problem/3188/15 "2021-11-11T09:25:42Z")
Hello, i am also facing same issue… without generate rows plugin the OCR Plugin is working without output,
After adding generate rows plugin , OCR throwing error,
Please kindly give some suggestions