On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:48 AM, 74yrs old <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ray, > It appears that softifreeocr run on the exe/tessdata and *not dl*l which > are placed under "windows" directory. > From personal experience, whenever exe re-generated, a copy of the > generated tesseract-exe has to copied to Windows folder for replacement of > old exe file and works fine. > and also display log message, if there is problem. Now when latest version > of tesseract.exe is copied to Windows folder - does not work nor output of > log message as usual. To test the sofitfreeocr, > when I *replaced *the new version of exe with previous version it works > fine again.I have replaced number of generated exe during beta-testing of > Kannada with default original exe of softifreeocr and still works. > At present sofifreeocr has built-in default of download version of > tesseractocr 2.03.attached freeocr26.exe.(Please note after installation, > tesseract.exe and tessdata will appear in Windows folder only- wherein you > can replace with exe files generated .) > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Ray Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I haven't tried softifreeocr. Does it use the dll or run the exe directly? >> I made a few changes with the build for 2.04 that may be affecting other >> modules: >> 1. The compile is now for statically linked C-runtime, so the exe will >> most likely work on recent windows versions without having to download the >> VC++ redistributables. This was a major problem that people had pointed out, >> and it should just run when there is a .exe distribution. >> >> 2. The other big change is making it output to stderr instead of >> tesseract.log. A lot of people complained about this also. Now if you just >> run tesseract without any arguments, you at least get a usage message. If it >> is using the exe instead of the dll, this might be why softifreeocr doesn't >> work. It might help further if you could define "doesn't work" in more >> detail. >> >> 3. The third major change is to link with subsystem console instead of >> windows. This is needed to make output to stderr actually appear in your >> console window instead of going down a windows black hole. Some windows apps >> may struggle to run a console app as a sub-process. That might be another >> reason it doesn't work with softifreeocr. A change to the parameters of >> CreateProcess may be required. >> >> You could experiment with undoing various parts of these changes to find >> out why softifreeocr doesn't work: >> >> 1. Right click on the tesseract project ->properties->c/c++->code >> generation->runtime library. [Multithreaded (debug or not) dll]. >> >> 2. In tprintf.cpp, line 31, put tesseract.log in the empty "" >> >> 3. Right click on the tesseract project >> ->properties->linker->system->subsystem set to windows. I just noticed that >> the preprocessor define for _WINDOWS is still set, when this should be >> _CONSOLE to match subsystem console and _WINDOWS to match subsystem windows. >> I will fix this to _CONSOLE for the real release. >> >> Ray. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:50 AM, 74yrs old <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Ray, >>> I could not wait for your clarification. >>> >>> * I)tesseract.sln * >>> Anyhow I downloaded again from the source (svn) and compiled in Visual >>> Studio2008(VC++) by clicking on tesseract.sln and *not*tesseract_2008.sln. >>> generated tesseract.exe( >>> *debug* file of 2.86mb) which found works well. *Unfortunately it does >>> not work in SoftiFreeOCR* even phototest.tif (which I used testing >>> Kannada by replacing tesseract.exe in windows folder) Then I tested on >>> Command Prompt found phtotest.tif as well as Kannada.tif works well. >>> >>> compiled in Visual Studio2008(VC++) by clicking on tesseract.sln and *not >>> *tesseract_2008.sln. generated tesseract.exe( *Release* file of 735KB) >>> which found works well. *Unfortunately it does not work in >>> SoftiFreeOCR*even phototest.tif (which I used testing Kannada by replacing >>> tesseract.exe >>> in windows folder) Then I tested on Command Prompt found phtotest.tif as >>> well as Kannada.tif works well. >>> >>> *II)Tesseract_2008.sln* >>> compiled in Visual Studio2008(VC++) by clicking on tesseract_2008.sln. >>> generated tesseract.exe( *Release* file of 735KB) which found works >>> well. *Unfortunately it does not work in SoftiFreeOCR* even >>> phototest.tif (which I used testing Kannada by replacing tesseract.exe in >>> windows folder) Then I tested on Command Prompt found phtotest.tif as well >>> as Kannada.tif works well. >>> Note: other six exe have not tested. >>> >>> Now SoftiFreeOCR does not work anymore for testing Kannada as well as >>> english.if used exe files of 2.04 version. >>> With regards, >>> -sriranga(76yrs old) >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:11 PM, 74yrs old <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Ray, >>>> whether I have to download from Source(svn) and re-compile in >>>> VC2008(VC++)? >>>> -sriranga(76yrsold) >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Ray Smith <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Tesseract_2008.sln is a red herring. It is not intended to be a part of >>>>> 2.04. I modified tesseract.sln to suit vc++ 2008, hence the comment that >>>>> vc++2005 is no longer supported. Please build with tesseract.sln >>>>> Ray. >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 5, 2009 11:21 PM, "74yrs old" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Yes. If tried the tesseract_2008.sln and generate exe (release) and if >>>>> run the same - it will crashed with windows error message of encountered. >>>>> It >>>>> does not generate log file or output is blank. Ray may be working on the >>>>> issue. >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:28 AM, nguyenq <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > > > I rebuilt and it was st... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. 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