Unable to load library 'tesseract': libtesseract.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

I\'ve had tesseract and Tess4J running on my MBP for a while now. Today I started to migrate my app to the server and started installing everything on the server. Prior to r

Answer 1

Maybe it is a 32 bit library .so installed.

Answer 2

I had this problem too.

Did you run the following after installing tesseract:

sudo ldconfig

That fixed it for me.

Answer 3

It is necessary to define the variable jna.platform.library.path. For instance:

-Djna.platform.library.path=/usr/local/lib/

Answer 4

You must set LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the path where libtesseract.so is.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib