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Tesseract Fallback Logic in IronOCR

Curtis Chau
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The exception Could not initialize Tesseract. The fallback logic failed is thrown when the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio is not installed on your target machines.

Please see this Knowledge Base article for more detailed information - Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio

Alternatively, you may download it from Microsoft - Latest Supported VC Redist

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