Tesseract - ERROR net.sourceforge.tess4j.Tesseract - null

Question

Created a java application that uses Tesseract in order to convert a given image or pdf to a string format, when running it on my machine as a unit test using junit it runs grea

Answer 1

Resources I used: Windows 10 (tried on Windows Server 2016 as well), JAVA, MAVEN

Status: Working good on my local as well as VM 

1. Download  Tess4J-3.4.8  from here http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/  and set your ENV variable path under Advance System Setting 
2. Get repo from MAVEN - 


net.sourceforge.tess4j
tess4j
4.5.1


org.ghost4j
ghost4j
1.0.1


net.sourceforge.lept4j
lept4j
1.7.0


3. Get libtesseract302.dll and copy to "C:\Windows\System32" folder 
from here http://api.256file.com/libtesseract302.dll/en-download-56466.html
do not forget to set your ENV variable path under Advance System Setting  

4. Download and install Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable or VC++ 2017 Redistributable (I installed both )
from here https://programmer.help/blogs/net.sourceforge.tess4j.tesseractexception-java.lang.nullpointerexception.html 

then do restart your PC 

5. on Safer side can have some Jar files if you dont have already in local - Please see image

do not forget to set your ENV variable path for JARs under Advance System Setting