# OCR PTMuxer provides optional OCR of sup files. Currently this can be used to ID tracks based on the content. Enabling requires configuring at least one of two engines. ### Tesseract OCR Tesseract OCR Provides the highest level of language compatibility in PTMuxer. A downside is that it requires packages on the host system. Meaning that typically root would access would be required on a Linux Box. #### Requirements Visit repo for instrucions on how to install required binaries ``` https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr ``` However this package does require that tesseract binary be installed on the system If you don't have sudo or dont want to install the requirements. Then easyocr might be a good choice #### Install You can install the module with ``` CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include pip3 install tesserocr ``` #### Windows Support Windows Releases with all required libraries are provided. They are specific to each python version ### EasyOCR As the name implies this program is easy to install, and use It does not provide nearly as many languages as Tesseract. However, it still supports 80+ languages. So you will find that the most popular languages are included. #### Windows Support You may get errors mentioning torch on windows machines If this happens manually configuration of the torch module may be required Running this command may fix the issue ``` pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu116 ```