This, I think, just illustrates there is no one-size-fits-all approach. All methods should be enumerated for installing Tesseract for Mac.
On 21 August 2015 at 13:04, Helmut Wollmersdorfer < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2015 14:44:49 UTC+2 schrieb Nick White: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I was looking at the Tesseract wiki, and it states that "The easiest >> way to install Tesseract is with MacPorts." I don't think that is >> true any more. MacPorts requires XCode to be manually installed >> before it can be installed, which doesn't look like it's very simple >> for a non-expert. >> >> Homebrew seems much simpler, plus it is very popular, doesn't >> require sudo, and is frequently updated, so I think we should be >> recommending that first in the Mac OS X section of the wiki. Any >> objections? I don't use a Mac myself, so possibly I am >> misunderstanding something. >> >> > I develop on Mac und have production on Debian/Linux. > > Had no luck with MacPort at all. > > I changed to homebrew, and followed this excellent HOWTO: > > https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2014/11/13/command_line_ocr_on_mac_os_x.html > > Helmut Wollmersdorfer > > >> My proposed new text is this: >> >> ## Mac OS X >> >> The easiest way to install Tesseract is with >> [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/). Once it is installed, you can install >> Tesseract, including all language data, by running the command: >> ``` >> brew install --all-languages tesseract >> ``` >> >> If you only need English recognition you can instead install using >> this command: >> ``` >> brew install tesseract >> ``` >> >> Sound good? >> >> Nick >> > -- > 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/30cb094c-028d-49e9-8a5c-ee5ec5ffdaa8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/30cb094c-028d-49e9-8a5c-ee5ec5ffdaa8%40googlegroups.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. 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/CAORW5viZHrEkoMGtecW_%3DKx0n2FyP3PN4KizUZ-57W9JQB0CYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
