On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:06 PM, TedJ <[email protected]> wrote: > >Have you looked at my "Using the latest Tesseract-OCR sources" page [1] > that explains how to use TortoiseSVN to get the latest sources? > > I tried installing Tortroise too. Couldn't install it either. I have > only downloaded and unzipped the latest 3.02 ZIP contributions from > Google's Tesseract-OCR download site into individual directories > (preserving their directory structure of course). Isn't that sufficient? > So svn is the base directory of the repository at Github that you were > referring to. > > >"Programming with libtesseract" [2] discusses how to use libtesseract > with VS2008 but some of the information applies to any compiler. baseapi.h > and leptonica's allheaders.h are the headers you need to include. > > They're already included. Guess that's why it compiles (but won't link). > So tessbaseapi.h was from an earlier version? I don't have Visual Studio > and I don't want to buy it. Thus, all the vcproj files are evidently > useless to me. I've been trying to use MinGW GCC as my current toolchain > and CDT Internal Builder as my current builder within Eclipse. In a batch > file, it should be either: > > If you plan to use mingw - have a look at my test[1] with mingw+msys (VC++2008 is preferred and tested compiler on Windows for tesseract-ocr). I tried to make step by step tutorial. Anyway you will need to find way how to integrate it to Eclipse, but I expect you are familiar with your tool chain....
[1] http://www.sk-spell.sk.cx/compiling-leptonica-and-tesseract-ocr-with-mingwmsys > set > ti=<installdir>\tesseract-3.02.02-win32-lib-include-dirs\include\tesseract > set li=<installdir>\leptonica-1.68-win32-lib-include-dirs\include\leptonica > g++ -c -I%li% -I%ti% src\MinAreaRects.cpp > > or... > > set > ti=<installdir>\tesseract-ocr-3.02.02-src\Tesseract-OCR\include\tesseract > set li=<installdir>\leptonica-1.68-win32-lib-include-dirs\include\leptonica > g++ -c -I%li% -I%ti%\ccmain -I%ti%\ccutil -I%ti%\api -I%ti%\ccstruct > src\MinAreaRects.cpp > > i.e. - I assume that when compiling with the > 'tesseract-3.02.02-win32-lib-include-dirs' then only one path entry is > needed: '\include\tesseract'. > And when compiling with 'tesseract-ocr-3.02.02-src'', then the relevant > subdirectories (like \Tesseract-OCR\api) DO need to be added to the > compiler's include path. > > Since I don't have VS2008, I can't attempt to use the Microsoft Visual C++ > toolchain (having no 'cl.exe'). > > >You might want to look at.[3] which contains a very short tesseract > sample app (essentially the same as tesseract.exe). > > I assume that references to using 'libtesseract' (at least in terms of ver > 3.02) really means linking 'libtesseract302.dll' or 'libtesseract302d.dll' > from the downloaded lib directory. Is the d version for debugging? So, > the library entry for the linker should be 'tesseract302' or > 'tesseract302d' (dropping the lib prefix and the .dll suffix). Just wanna > be sure I've dotted all my i's. In my code snippet below, the variable > declaration works (indicating a good compile). But the instantiation just > below it never does (indicating a bad link). > > TessBaseAPI *tessa; > tessa = new TessBaseAPI(); > > Correct me if I'm wrong about any of this. Thanks again. > > -- > -- > 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. > > > -- -- 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.
