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@@ -384,9 +384,19 @@ See `OCRmyPDF Docker Image <docker>`_ for more information.
Installing on Windows
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Direct installation on Windows is not possible. `Install the Docker <docker-install>`_ container as described above. Ensure that your command prompt can run the docker "hello world" container.
Direct installation on Windows is not possible, because there are a
POSIX dependencies. Your options are:
It would probably not be too difficult to port on Windows. The main reason this has been avoided is the difficulty of packaging and installing the various non-Python dependencies: Tesseract, QPDF, Ghostscript, Leptonica. Pull requests to add or improve Windows support would be quite welcome.
* Install Ubuntu 18.04 in Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux, then follow
the Ubuntu 18.04 procedure.
* `Install the Docker <docker-install>`__ container. Ensure that
your command prompt can run the docker "hello world" container.
It would probably not be too difficult to port on Windows. The main
reason this has been avoided is the difficulty of packaging and
installing the various non-Python dependencies: Tesseract, QPDF,
Ghostscript, Leptonica. Pull requests to add or improve Windows support
would be quite welcome.
Installing with Python pip
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