Github user jdye64 commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/397 @olegz my initial intention was that the "TESS_DATA_PATH" and the "TessdataDirectoryValidator" being a required PropertyDescriptor would catch those instances where users tried to use this processor without the native system dependencies installed. You bring up a good point however since really all this would do is check that the Tesseract dictionary files are present which certainly doesn't mean that the native libraries will be there as well. This doesn't cover the unit test cases however. I like your point about creating a throw away Tesseract instance to check if the dependencies are present. I will add something like that.
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