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+ If you have a Windows that is not the Home edition, you can use Windows Sandbox to test on a blank Windows instance.
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+ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-isolation/windows-sandbox/
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.. note ::
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Administrator privileges will be required for some of these steps.
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* ``python3 -m pip install ocrmypdf ``
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+ The Windows Python versions do not place any python or python3 executable in the path.
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+ They add the py launcher to the path:
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+ https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#python-launcher-for-windows
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+ If you installed Python using WinGet, then use the following command instead:
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+ * ``py -m pip install ocrmypdf ``
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+ and use:
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+ * ``py -m ocrmypdf ``
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+ To start OCRmyPDF.
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+ If you intend to use more Python software on your Windows machine, consider the use of
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+ `pipx <https://pipx.pypa.io/stable/ >`_ or a similar tool to create isolated Python
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+ environments for each Python software that you want to use.
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OCRmyPDF will check the Windows Registry and standard locations in your Program Files
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for third party software it needs (specifically, Tesseract and Ghostscript). To
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override the versions OCRmyPDF selects, you can modify the ``PATH `` environment
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