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The "TikaOCR" page has been changed by ChrisMattmann: https://wiki.apache.org/tika/TikaOCR?action=diff&rev1=1&rev2=2 = Mac Installation Instructions = - # If you are lucky `brew install tesseract` will work, if not, read on + 1. If you are lucky `brew install tesseract --all-languages` will work, if not, read on - == Issues with Installing via Brew == + == Issues with Installing via Brew == - If you have trouble installing via Brew, read this [[https://gist.github.com/henrik/1967035|link]]. + If you have trouble installing via Brew, some options to try: + 1. try typing `brew -v install tesseract --all-languages` + 2. try to discern any make/configure errors. YMMV here. + 3. if brew won't do it, you can also try and install Tesseract [[https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com|from source]]. + + + == Tesseract won't work with TIFF files == + + If you are having trouble getting Tesseract to work with + TIFF files, read this [[https://gist.github.com/henrik/1967035|link]]. + Summary: + + 1. uninstall tesseract `brew uninstall tesseract` + 2. uninstall leptonica `brew uninstall leptonica` + 3. install leptonica with tiff support `brew install leptonica --with-libtiff` + 4. install tesseract `brew install tesseract --all-languages` +
