How to Extract Assemblies Contained inside a NuGet Package

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.

A similar approach can be followed for any other NuGet package in order to extract the assemblies contained inside the .nupkg.

Solution

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

2. Find the contained assemvlies in the lib folder:

3. Use explicitly this Tesseract.dll in your project.