Update README with Fedora installation instructions (#1610)

Added instructions for Fedora users to install Tesseract language packs.
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OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract for OCR, and relies on its language packs. For Linux users, you can often find packages that provide language packs:
```bash
# Display a list of all Tesseract language packs
apt-cache search tesseract-ocr
# Debian/Ubuntu users
apt-cache search tesseract-ocr # Display a list of all Tesseract language packs
apt-get install tesseract-ocr-chi-sim # Example: Install Chinese Simplified language pack
# Arch Linux users
pacman -S tesseract-data-eng tesseract-data-deu # Example: Install the English and German language packs
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ pkg_add tesseract-cym # Example: Install the Welsh language pack
# brew macOS users
brew install tesseract-lang
# Fedora users
dnf search tesseract-langpack # Display a list of all Tesseract language packs
dnf install tesseract-langpack-ita # Example: Install the Italian language pack
```
You can then pass the `-l LANG` argument to OCRmyPDF to give a hint as to what languages it should search for. Multiple languages can be requested.