FFmpeg 3.0.12
Since* 3.0
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Optical Character Recognition

This filter uses Tesseract for optical character recognition.

It accepts the following options:

datapath

Set datapath to tesseract data. Default is to use whatever was set at installation.

language

Set language, default is "eng".

whitelist

Set character whitelist.

blacklist

Set character blacklist.

The filter exports recognized text as the frame metadata lavfi.ocr.text.