Other projects can be built and linked against Tesseract. One example is OpenCV.
In that case, you can install the -dev package, to avoid having to compile tesseract yourself, in order to get headers and linkable libraries. /René On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 17:57, Areo Twister <areotwis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I already looked at the description text of the libtesseract-dev package: > > "Development files for the tesseract command line OCR tool > Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) > Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to > extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of > languages. This package includes the development files, static > library, and header files" > > but i still dont get, what the purpose of this package is, because > tesseract just works fine without this package. > So more precisely my question is: "What does the installation of the > libtesseract-dev package change, compared to not installing it?" > > > -- > 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 tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/3d23ef26-6016-46a1-bb7a-6bb253a79778%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/3d23ef26-6016-46a1-bb7a-6bb253a79778%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Never fear, Linux is here. -- 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 tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/CAB-60ni%3Dhb%3DEZZhuJ4Jc_f__q6eCWW-g-rWJnfBzaDjQagn4ZA%40mail.gmail.com.
