How to Install Tesseract OCR on Windows and use it with Python

This is a walkthrough for installing tesseract on Windows and configuring it to be able to programatically use it with Python. As a bonus I show how you can parallelized execution with the multiprocessing package Pool module on Windows. Also, the recon screenshot tool for Bug Bounties I was thinking of is GoWitness. https://github.com/sensepost/gowitness Use your powers for good.....or evil. Whatever, I'm a YouTuber not a cop. 00:00 Intro/What is Tesseract 00:55 Installing pytesseract with pip 01:55 Installing Tesseract OCR exe 04:00 Extracting text 04:12 Adding Tesseract to Path 09:45 Creating a function to classify documents 19:50 A bit about what an image file really is 22:10 Handling errors gracefully 22:35 Adding Return Codes 26:15 Vertical Scaling using Multiprocessing 30:00 Putting it all together 35:00 Demo of how multiprocessing doesn't work in a notebook on Windows 36:14 Conclusion