check_ocr_deps.py

import subprocess
import shutil

def check_env():
    print("Checking for Tesseract...")
    tess_path = shutil.which("tesseract")
    if tess_path:
        print(f"Tesseract found: {tess_path}")
        try:
            res = subprocess.run(["tesseract", "--version"], capture_output=True, text=True)
            print(res.stdout)
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"Error running tesseract: {e}")
    else:
        print("Tesseract NOT found in PATH")

    print("\nChecking for pdftoppm (poppler)...")
    poppler_path = shutil.which("pdftoppm")
    if poppler_path:
        print(f"pdftoppm found: {poppler_path}")
        try:
            res = subprocess.run(["pdftoppm", "-v"], capture_output=True, text=True)
            print(res.stderr) # pdftoppm prints version to stderr
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"Error running pdftoppm: {e}")
    else:
        print("pdftoppm NOT found in PATH")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    check_env()