Аннотация:Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a widely-known technique to recognize the printed text using computer with the help of various peripheral devices. Research works for OCR of many languages scripts is in process and many languages are still far away. Gujarati script is one of the least focused script in research area of OCR as compared to other scripts. A wellknown Open Source OCR Engine called Tesseract which is already used for the recognition of numerous scripts, can be used to recognize printed Gujarati characters from digital images. This paper is trying to enlighten the use of Tesseract to recognizeGujarati characters with the help of already available trained data for Gujarati Script.