Hi, Thank you so much for the reply. I just have one more step to make, I am using Tesseract 2.04 now and I've got all the files ready, I am trying to combine them all together but there is no combine_tessdata for 2.04, I want to know how to combine them under 2.04.
Thank you so much!! On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 August 2010 07:45, OCR Newbie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Currently I am trying to use Tesseract(2.04) to recognize my own data, > > with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. > > I find this > http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract > > and I am trying to follow this tutorial. > > My questions are: > > 1. I already have my train.tif ready, but I am not sure where I should > > place the image file, (under 'tessdata' folder or can be anywhere? > > If you're running 'tesseract train.tif ...', it just needs to be in > the current directory. > > > 2.About run the tesseract on my training image, it asks to run > > 'tesseract train.tif train batch.nochop makebox' , I guess I should > > use the terminal, but when I type this command into it, it keep saying > > 'tesseract command not found', I tried to run the configure terminal > > first and type 'make', but it is still not working. > > You also need to use 'make install', or provide a path to the > executable - Unix-like systems (unlike DOS, etc.) do not include the > current directory in the executable search path. (You can, of course, > change that but it's A Bad Idea.) > > If tesseract is in /home/jim and $PWD (use 'echo $PWD') is /home/jim I > could use: > ./tesseract ... > ('.' means 'this directory') > /home/jim/tesseract > (the full path) > or even > ../jim/tesseract > ('..' means 'one level lower' - in this case, '/home') > or even: > $PWD/tesseract > > ($PWD is an environment variable, and will always be there... unless > you remove it from another shell, but you probably don't need to worry > about that). > > I think MacOS uses /User or something else, just substitute with > actual values. Using 'make install' will be more convenient, though. > -- > <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. > <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<tesseract-ocr%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" 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/tesseract-ocr?hl=en.

