Hi Bora, that's because on Ubuntu this is only going to work if you build tesseract from scratch - i.e. compile its sources.
I outline the steps and link to further information in an tutorial on my web-site: http://www.joyofdata.de/blog/a-guide-on-ocr-with-tesseract-3-03/ Kind regards Raffael PS: It's really a shame that such a great software is lacking a vivid and helpful community :/ On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 00:00:41 UTC+1, Bora Semiz wrote: > > Hello. I heard the tesseract name just a few days ago and I researched it > a little. Its feature that it can be trained for another languages > interested me, since I am working on a project in which I have to create my > own font and character sets. I was going through the steps of training > tesseract, but I couldn't figure out building the 'training the > tesseract-ocr' ( > https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract3#Building_the_training_tools). > > I am using Ubuntu 12.04 x64, and downloaded the tesseract from synaptic > package manager. I also downloaded the source code of version 3.02.02 which > is also same with which I downloaded from package manager ( > https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/detail?name=tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz&can=2&q=). > > When I try to do this: > > $ make training > $ sudo make training-install > > it gives me an error which says; > bora@bora-PC:~/Desktop/tesseract-ocr/training$ make training > make: *** No rule to make target `training'. Stop. > bora@bora-PC:~/Desktop/tesseract-ocr/training$ > > I have also successfully installed the required libraries, which are; > > sudo apt-get install libicu-dev > sudo apt-get install libpango1.0-dev > sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/a0cf0c72-09b9-438f-b238-157b6d02c1b7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
