Tesseract running error

Question

I have a problem with running tesseract-ocr engine on linux. I\'ve downloaded RUS language data and put it to tessdata directory (/usr/local/share/tessdata). When I\'m tryin

Answer 1

I'm using windows OS, I tried all solutions above and none of them work.

Finally, I install Tesseract-OCR on D drive(Where I run my python script from) instead of C drive and it works.

So, if you are using windows, run your python script in the same drive as your Tesseract-OCR.

Answer 2

The simpliest way is to install the needed package:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng  #for english
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-tam  #for tamil
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-deu  #for deutsch (German)

As you can notice, it opens the road to others languages (i.e. tesseract-ocr-fra).

Answer 3

C# developer working on Windows here. What works for me is simply download the file eng.traineddata from the following URL:

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/blob/master/eng.traineddata

and copy it to the following directory in my Console Application project:

[Project Directory]\bin\Debug\tessdata

I did manually create the tessdata folder above.

Answer 4

I'm using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition.
I solved this problem by making a directory called tessdata in the Debug directory of my project. Then I put the eng.traineddata file into said directory.

Answer 5

tesseract  --tessdata-dir <tessdata-folder> <image-path> stdout --oem 2 -l <lng>

In my case, the mistakes that I've made or attempts that wasn't a success.

• I cloned the github repo and copied files from there to
  • /usr/local/share/tessdata/
  • /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/
  • /usr/share/tessdata/
• Used TESSDATA_PREFIX with above paths
• sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng

First 2 attempts did not worked because, the files from git clone did not worked for the reasons that I do not know. I am not sure why #3 attempt worked for me.

Finally,

1. I downloaded the eng.traindata file using wget
2. Copied it to some directory
3. Used --tessdata-dir with directory name

Take away for me is to learn the tool well & make use of it, rather than relying on package manager installation & directories

Answer 6

You can call tesseract API function from C code:

#include <tesseract/baseapi.h>
#include <tesseract/ocrclass.h>; // ETEXT_DESC

using namespace tesseract;

class TessAPI : public TessBaseAPI {
    public:
    void PrintRects(int len);
};

...
TessAPI *api = new TessAPI();
int res = api->Init(NULL, "rus");
api->SetAccuracyVSpeed(AVS_MOST_ACCURATE);
api->SetImage(data, w0, h0, bpp, stride);
api->SetRectangle(x0,y0,w0,h0);

char *text;
ETEXT_DESC monitor;
api->RecognizeForChopTest(&monitor);
text = api->GetUTF8Text();
printf("text: %s\n", text);
printf("m.count: %s\n", monitor.count);
printf("m.progress: %s\n", monitor.progress);

api->RecognizeForChopTest(&monitor);
text = api->GetUTF8Text();
printf("text: %s\n", text);
...
api->End();

And build this code:

g++ -g -I. -I/usr/local/include -o _test test.cpp -ltesseract_api -lfreeimageplus

(i need FreeImage for picture loading)