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 You can either [Install Tesseract via pre-built binary package](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Home.html)
 or [build it from source](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Compiling.html).
 
-C++17 support is required for building.
+A C++ compiler with good C++17 support is required for building Tesseract from source.
 
 ## Running Tesseract