On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:56 AM, chikev <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/Compiling > > The instructions are at this link are no good for someone like me who has > never compiled, built, or made a package. They say "the compilation process > should be familiar." Well that's not the case for me. > > I am sorry but compiling software from source is not tesseract topic. This is general topic. Try to search for "linux building from source". It gave me 109 000 000 pages in google. > The instructions said to do ./configure but when I did, nothing happened. > Then I tried to unpack all the files into my download directory, then I > tried to 'mv tesseract-ocr/tessdata $TESSDATA_PREFIX' if defined > TESSDATA_PREFIX' but nothing happened either. > > I followed the instructions as best I could and read the FAQ but I think > the process failed because the instructions are written for people who have > done this before. > > I don't even know what version of tesseract I have or haven't managed to > install. I think I am still stuck in an old version from my L(ubuntu) 1.10 > Linux version 3.0.0-22-generic-pa installation, because when I check the > man tesseract page it tells me 2009 and there is no instruction about > checking the version. > Ask your distribution maintainer to upgrade tesseract to the latest version and wait until it will be available. AFAIK 3.02.01 is included in Ubuntu release in February, 3.02.02 should be in next version. So it should not be the big problem to incorporate tesseract to Ubuntu clone. > I also don't know how to check directories to see if stuff has been > installed properly or where it should have been installed. The instructions > assume I know about these things. > > I would like to encourage you to spent time on learning your system (how it works). It looks like you have no basic knowledge. Simply said - if you have no this information then nobody has it (yes, user can change it). -- Zdenko -- 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
