INSTALL OCR TESSERACT

Download the Tesseract-ocr package at
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-2.00.tar.gz

Download the Tesseract-ocr language data package you want here:

http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list

Choose the different packages you want, named "tesseract-2.00.XX.tar.gz" where "XX"

represents the language you want.

Now open a terminal and go to the folder containing your lastest downloads with the command "cd".

You need to run the next commands to install OCR Tesseract : ($> represents the prompt of your terminal)

$>tar –xvzf tesseract-2.00.tar.gz

$>cd tesseract-2.00

$>./configure

$>make

$>sudo make install

$>tar –xvzf tesseract-2.00.XX.tar.gz ("XX" represents the prefix language)| do it

$>sudo cp ./tessdata/* /usr/local/share/tessdata/ | for each language archive | 

$>rm –rf tessdata

Now that you have OCR tesseract on your computer, you can try it with these commands:

$>tesseract phototest.tif test

$>cat test.txt "test.txt" contains the same text than the picture "phototest.tif".

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