I just scanned approximately 200 pages in Ubuntu 12.10 with no problems, using 3.02 package from the repository. I had to use convert to improve the tiffs from my scanner, but I got very good results, with a very low error rate. Didnothing special.
/greg On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Michael Lissner < [email protected]> wrote: > I have Ubuntu 12.04, which has tesseract 3.02 and leptonica version 1.69. > > I've installed these, and also installed libtiff4 using apt-get. > > When I try to process a document, I get: > > ↪ sudo tesseract united_states_v._ups_customhouse_brokerage_inc.tif > united_states_v._ups_customhouse_brokerage_inc -l eng > Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02 with Leptonica > Error in pixReadFromTiffStream: spp not in set {1,3,4} > Error in pixReadStreamTiff: pix not read > Error in pixReadStream: tiff: no pix returned > Error in pixRead: pix not read > Unsupported image type. > > > Which seems baffling to me. I've tried reinstalling leptonica, > reininstalling the tiff libraries, and reinstalling tesseract in the hope > that they'd support tiffs once reinstalled. So far, nothing is helping. > > I was hoping that Ubuntu 12.04 would support everything i needed it to > without having to compile from source, but so far I've had bad luck. Is > there a way to make this work? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- /greg -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
