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Installing Tesseract-OCR on CentOS 6

I'm trying to install Tesseract-OCR on my server however when I install all what I believe to be the correct repos. When I try to install it the package is not found

I tried adding rpmforge but to no avail. Any ideas from somebody that has done before or is familiar with adding and searching through repos?

Solution

  • I used these instructions which worked correctly in Centos

    Install Tesseract OCR libs from sources in Centos

    Download Leptonica and Teseract sources:

    $ wget http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.69.tar.gz
$ wget https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz

    Configure, compile, install libs: 

     $ tar xzvf leptonica-1.69.tar.gz      
 $ cd leptonica-1.69      
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ sudo make install

 $ tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz
 $ cd tesseract-3.01
 $ ./autogen.sh
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ sudo make install
 $ sudo ldconfig

    Download languages (english) and copy to tessdata folder: 

    $ wget http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz       
$ tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz       
$ sudo cp tesseract-ocr/tessdata/* /usr/local/share/tessdata

    and enjoy it ;)