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-[submodule "app/assets/tessdata"]
-	path = app/assets/tessdata
-	url = https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata
-[submodule "app/assets/tessdata_best"]
-	path = app/assets/tessdata_best
-	url = https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best
-[submodule "app/assets/tessdata_fast"]
-	path = app/assets/tessdata_fast
-	url = https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_fast