YES, YES, YES. That worked. It was a challenge to locate the module on the site then very easy to un-zip and move it to the correct location. Not having that in the install documentation is a real mistake, or did I just miss it? I am sure that experts, and I bow to Jamie on that one, would know it. But us less technologically endowed didn't see it.
CLUG members are great. Thanks so much. On October 14, 2010 04:16:08 pm you wrote: > Do you need to also download the language data from the site and place > it into the /usr/local/share/tessdata/ folder? It's not included in the > download, so the application has no idea how to process text without > that data (it's pretty clearly stated on the tesseract-ocr site...). > > Jamie > > On 2010-10-14 3:47 PM, Dick Angus wrote: > > I went back and re-read the install instructions and was pretty sure > > that I did it correctly. Just to be sure I did a file search for any > > thing with tess* in the name and deleted everything I could find, > > except the original zip. I re-extracted it and did ./configure, sudo > > make, and sudo make install. All seemed to run well. I did an execute > > of tesseract on a file and got the same error about eng.traineddata. > > Just as a shot in the dark I created that file in the correct location > > with a touch command. I executed tesseract again and got a > > segmentation fault. > > > > I am attaching the install instructions from the tesseract-3.00 folder. > > > > I appreciate the help as the Google site doesn't seem to respond to > > questions. > > > > On October 14, 2010 02:01:07 pm Dick Angus wrote: > > > That changed the error to: > > > > > > > > > > > > Error openning data file /usr/local/share/tessdata/eng.traineddata > > > > > > > > > > > > now I go looking for /usr/local/share/tessdata/eng.traineddata and > > > > it isn't > > > > > there. I did a file search for eng.* and didn't find it in any other > > > > > > location. > > > > > > > > > > > > I might create an empty file and see what happens. I'll do that a > > > little > > > > > > later as I have to be away for an hour or so. > > > > > > On October 14, 2010 01:48:27 pm William Astle wrote: > > > > On 2010-10-14 13:44, Dick Angus wrote: > > > > > I have used tesseract over several versions with Kubuntu. I just > > > > did an > > > > > > > upgrade to Kubuntu 10.10 and installed tesseract from the > > > > repositories. > > > > > > > I immediately ran into a well documented bug. The solution was > > > > to go to > > > > > > > tesseract 3.0. I downloaded the zip file and followed the > > > > > > > > > > compile/install directions. All seemed to go well except the first > > > > > > > > > > execution ended with > > > > > > > tesseract: error while loading shared libraries: > > libtesseract_api.so.3: > > > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > > > > > sudo ldconfig > > > > > > > > > I checked the directories and the tesseract executable modules > > > > are in > > > > > > > /usr/local/bin and the various tesseract libraries are in > > > > > > > > > > /usr/local/lib The error lib is a soft link to the full library > > > > in the > > > > > > > same directory. Both these directories are in the PATH statement. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am not an expert developer, I can stumble around some, so I'm not > > > > > > > > > > sure how to resolve this issue. Does anyone have a suggestion? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > > > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > > > > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > An old mainframer getting current > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying -- An old mainframer getting current
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