I've tested Tesseract on OSX. So, yes, it should work. I'll try on Ubuntu tomorrow, but everything should still work.
Tyler On Aug 12, 2014 4:03 PM, "kevin slote" <[email protected]> wrote: > Will the tesseract support be for unix as well as windows? > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Petr Vas (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > [ > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14093987#comment-14093987 > > ] > > > > Petr Vas edited comment on TIKA-93 at 8/12/14 12:00 PM: > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > > [~chrismattmann], do you know when we can expect this OCR parser to > appear > > in Tika's SVN repo? > > > > > > was (Author: yonyonson): > > [~chrismattmann], do you know when we can expect this OCR parser to > appear > > in released version (i.e. is there any expected release date for Tika > 1.7)? > > Would there be any RC / beta version that can be used? > > > > I can see that previous versions of Tika used to be released each half > > year or so and it puts 1.7 release date somewhere in Feb 2015. Does it > > sounds right? > > > > > OCR support > > > ----------- > > > > > > Key: TIKA-93 > > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93 > > > Project: Tika > > > Issue Type: New Feature > > > Components: parser > > > Reporter: Jukka Zitting > > > Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann > > > Priority: Minor > > > Fix For: 1.7 > > > > > > Attachments: TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch, > > TIKA-93.patch, TesseractOCRParser.patch, TesseractOCRParser.patch, > > TesseractOCR_Tyler.patch, TesseractOCR_Tyler_v2.patch, testOCR.docx, > > testOCR.pdf, testOCR.pptx > > > > > > > > > I don't know of any decent open source pure Java OCR libraries, but > > there are command line OCR tools like Tesseract ( > > http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) that could be invoked by Tika > to > > extract text content (where available) from image files. > > > > > > > > -- > > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > > (v6.2#6252) > > >
