Hi Michael, I posted some detailed instructions on 26 Sept 2008 on how to install ocropus-0.2 including the openFST package on Debian. Installing ocropus-0.3 was similar. Perhaps those instructions might help.
--Graham On Mar 23, 9:58 am, Michael DelGaudio <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for you prompt response! Installing tesseract with apt-get > cleared the initial error however I now get a similar error: > > configure: error: Could not find openFST! Choose --without-fst if you > do not want to use it > > So installed openFST but am not sure how to run it or validate the > install. Also, is it possible that I am not installing from the > correct location? I'm somewhat new on Ubuntu. To install openFST for > example, form /usr/local/src/ I ran: > > wgethttp://mohri-lt.cs.nyu.edu/twiki/pub/FST/FstDownload/openfst-1.1.tar.gz > tar zxvf openfst-1.1.tar.gz > cd openfst-1.1 > ./confugure > make > make install > > Throws no errors during the build. That should do it, no? Looks to be > all there in /usr/local/bin/. No sign of the others installing there > which I still think is strange. Do I need the openFST library to run > Ocropus? Thanks again for your help! > > -Michael > > On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Ilya Mezhirov wrote: > > > > > Hi Michael, > > > If you run Ubuntu 8.10, you can just apt-get install tesseract-ocr-dev > > and tesseract-ocr-eng (or another language pack). Should work with > > that. > > > Cheers, > > Ilya > > > On Mar 23, 2:30 pm, Siong-Ui Te <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's strange. My tesseract is installed in /usr/local/bin instead of > >> /usr/local/include. > >> Try to issue: > >> which tesseract > >> to make sure the installed path of tesseract > > >> Siong-Ui > > >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Michael DelGaudio < > > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >>> Hi everybody, > >>> I'm building Ocropus 0.3 on Ubuntu 8.1. When I run ./configure it > >>> throws: > > >>> configure: error: Could not find tesseract! Choose --without > >>> tesseract if > >>> you do not want to use it. > > >>> Tesseract is installed at /user/local/include/tesseract and works > >>> just fine > >>> when I parse test images with it. Running ./configure > >>> --with-tessearct=/user/local/include/ or ./configure > >>> --with-tessearct=/user/local/include/tesseract,still throes the > >>> above > >>> error. I've dug around on the wiki and forum but could not find > >>> anything regarding this error. Does anyone know why Ocropus does > >>> not accept tessearct's location? I do want to use tesseract, > >>> correct? Any > >>> other thoughts? > > >>> Thanks so much! > >>> -Michael DelGaudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ocropus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ocropus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
