How to install Tesseract-3 on Debian
OpenSearchServer requires Tesseract 3 -- but by default Debian only provides version 2.x. Here is how to setup Tesseract 3.x using the sources.
Install the compiler tools: g++ and make
root@ssd2:~# apt-get install g++
root@ssd2:~# apt-get install make
Download, compile and install Leptonica
http://www.leptonica.com/download.html
We use a standard installation in /usr/local
root@ssd2:~# wget http://www.leptonica.com/source/leptonica-1.69.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# gunzip leptonica-1.69.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# tar -xvf leptonica-1.69.tar
root@ssd2:~# cd leptonica-1.69
root@ssd2:~/leptonica-1.69# ./configure
root@ssd2:~/leptonica-1.69# make
root@ssd2:~/leptonica-1.69# make install
Download, compile and install Tesseract 3.x
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
We use a standard installation in /usr/local
root@ssd2:~# wget http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# gunzip tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# tar -xvf tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar
root@ssd2:~# cd tesseract-ocr
root@ssd2:~/tesseract-ocr# ./configure
root@ssd2:~/tesseract-ocr# make
root@ssd2:~/tesseract-ocr# make install
Download and install the languages you need
root@ssd2:~# wget http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# wget http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.spa.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# wget http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.ita.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# wget http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.deu.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# wget http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.fra.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# gunzip tesseract-ocr-3.02.???.tar.gz
root@ssd2:~# tar -xvf tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar
root@ssd2:~# tar -xvf tesseract-ocr-3.02.spa.tar
root@ssd2:~# tar -xvf tesseract-ocr-3.02.ita.tar
root@ssd2:~# tar -xvf tesseract-ocr-3.02.deu.tar
root@ssd2:~# tar -xvf tesseract-ocr-3.02.fra.tar
root@ssd2:~# cd tesseract-ocr/tessdata/
root@ssd2:~/tesseract-ocr/tessdata# cp *.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/
Setup the appropriate PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and testing
root@ssd2:~/tesseract-ocr/tessdata# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
root@ssd2:~/tesseract-ocr/tessdata# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
root@ssd2:~/tesseract-ocr/tessdata# tesseract --list-langs
List of available languages (10):
dan-frak
deu-frak
deu
eng
fra
ita
ita_old
slk-frak
spa
spa_old
You should put the environment variable definition in the OpenSearchServer start script.
Restart OpenSearchServer, and setup the advanced tab panel