How to Extract Assemblies Contained inside a NuGet Package

Updated on Jun 5, 2026

Environment

Version	Product	Author
Q1 2025	Document Processing Libraries	Desislava Yordanova

Description

This article demonstrates how to extract the signed Tesseract.dll from the Telerik.Windows.Documents.TesseractOcr NuGet package.

You can follow a similar approach for any other NuGet package to extract the assemblies contained inside the .nupkg file.

Solution

1. Right-click the Telerik.Windows.Documents.TesseractOcr NuGet package and select Extract with 7-Zip:

   

2. Find the contained assemblies in the lib folder:

   

3. Reference the extracted Tesseract.dll in your project.

See Also

• Prerequisites
• Using OcrFormatProvider
• Available NuGet Packages