# Tesseract - How to send input in tesseract node when we have to read data from Image
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/tesseract-how-to-send-input-in-tesseract-node-when-we-have-to-read-data-from-image/30479
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**Created:** [21 July 2020 13:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/tesseract-how-to-send-input-in-tesseract-node-when-we-have-to-read-data-from-image/30479 "2020-07-21T13:34:30Z")
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### Author:  [@anr8115](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/anr8115)
#### Post date: [21 July 2020 13:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/tesseract-how-to-send-input-in-tesseract-node-when-we-have-to-read-data-from-image/30479/1 "2020-07-21T13:34:30Z")
I have an image with data in it and iam trying to use tesseract node to read the data. Can you please let me know what should be input (Name ) in tesseract node and also how to load the image file to node-red inorder to send it to tesseract as input?
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [21 July 2020 21:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/tesseract-how-to-send-input-in-tesseract-node-when-we-have-to-read-data-from-image/30479/2 "2020-07-21T21:57:04Z")
The node readme says you can either give the Nide a filename, or a URL, or a raw image buffer. Up to you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [19 September 2020 21:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/tesseract-how-to-send-input-in-tesseract-node-when-we-have-to-read-data-from-image/30479/3 "2020-09-19T21:57:14Z")
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