I think a lot of this is caused by the project home page claiming that Tesseract 3.03 is shipped with Ubuntu 2014.04. This sounds like it is a final release. I'd change or remove that statement.
Roadmap > > Version 3.03 release candidate is now available (source only so far) for > download and contains many new features. (See the ReleaseNotes > <https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ReleaseNotes> for a full > list.) Please check out the ReadMe > <http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ReadMe> before going to > Downloads <http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list> as you > need more than one file. *Even the windows executables tarball is > incomplete as language files are required.* Most notable new features: > > - PDF output. > - New Renderer for extracting detailed recognition information at a > document level. > > *Version 3.03 ships with recent Linux distributions such as Ubuntu 14.04.* > > Version 3.02 ships with Ubuntu 12.04 > Paul Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2014 11:11:32 UTC+2 schrieb zdenop: > > Anybody who is packaging tesseract and publicaly sharing 3.03 (excluding > -rc1) and 3.04 is lying. There are no such releases. > Repository is intended for developers and testers not for packagers! And > it is absolutely normal that there are changes of version withing > repository. There are for developers and testers. > > If packagers are not able to respect project (there are reasong why there > is no new release) that we should we should remove public tesseract > repository. > > Zdenko > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:46 AM, shree <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Zdenko, >> >> Sorry it was not meant to be a 'release' of 3.04, I just wanted to get >> the latest code compiled under msys2 and asked the developers for help and >> suggested a package of tesseract and leptonica under msys2. I presume, it >> is ok to label it as 3.03 with the *Revision:* *298e31465a44.* >> >> However, as I had asked you in an earlier post, your last commit of >> configure.ac does show tesseract version as 3.04 >> >> >> >> # ---------------------------------------- >> # Initialization >> # ---------------------------------------- >> >> AC_PREREQ(2.50) >> AC_INIT([tesseract], [3.04], [ >> http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/list]) >> >> >> FYI, training tools did compile under msys2 on windows8. >> >> Thanks, >> Shree >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 4:39:47 PM UTC+5:30, zdenop wrote: >> >>> Please stop with this releases!!! >>> 3.04 was not released! We are skipping 3.03 release because some people >>> decided to spread 3.03 on internet and there was need to change API. AFAIK >>> more API changes for 3.04 should come! >>> You are not helping this project defintely. >>> >>> Zdenko >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Shree Devi Kumar <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Please note that this does NOT install any language data. >>>> >>>> Shree Devi Kumar >>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>> भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Shree Devi Kumar <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Follow instructions on >>>>> >>>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/ >>>>> >>>>> to setup msys2 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> - 43 minutes ago [image: Alexx83]Alexx83 <http://ehc.ac/u/lexx83/> >>>>> posted a comment <http://ehc.ac/p/msys2/tickets/71/?limit=25#77dc> >>>>> on ticket #71 <http://ehc.ac/p/msys2/tickets/71/> >>>>> >>>>> Now tesseract-orc can be installed via pacman. For future, I >>>>> prefer to discuss issues... >>>>> - 46 minutes agoMSYS2 <http://ehc.ac/p/msys2/> released >>>>> /REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-tesseract-ocr-3.04-1-any.pkg. >>>>> tar.xz.sig >>>>> >>>>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-tesseract-ocr-3.04-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig/download> >>>>> >>>>> - 46 minutes ago MSYS2 <http://ehc.ac/p/msys2/> released >>>>> /REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-tesseract-ocr-3.04-1-any.pkg. >>>>> tar.xz >>>>> >>>>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-tesseract-ocr-3.04-1-any.pkg.tar.xz/download> >>>>> >>>>> - 48 minutes ago MSYS2 <http://ehc.ac/p/msys2/> released >>>>> /REPOS/MINGW/i686/mingw-w64-i686-tesseract- >>>>> ocr-3.04-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig >>>>> >>>>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/i686/mingw-w64-i686-tesseract-ocr-3.04-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig/download> >>>>> >>>>> - 48 minutes ago >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>> From: Alexx83 <[email protected]> >>>>> Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:21 PM >>>>> Subject: [msys2:tickets] #71 tesseract-ocr build failed with bad reloc >>>>> address 0x23 >>>>> To: "[msys2:tickets]" <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> Now tesseract-orc can be installed via pacman. >>>>> For future, I prefer to discuss issues with present packages or new >>>>> packages adding on github: >>>>> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages >>>>> >>>>> For MSYS2 packages: >>>>> https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages >>>>> >>>>> You can clone git repo with our scripts and create pull requests with >>>>> fixes or new packages. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "tesseract-dev" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-dev. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>>> msgid/tesseract-dev/CAG2NduVZ4sEhonj8YXAZk5xh0S9pm >>>> 8HrWA4RfLXSbJSbeSL%3DGA%40mail.gmail.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-dev/CAG2NduVZ4sEhonj8YXAZk5xh0S9pm8HrWA4RfLXSbJSbeSL%3DGA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. 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