On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...]
> I installed tesseract with configure, make, make install, then tried to run it > but got the following error message: > > Unable to load unicharset file /usr/local/share/tessdata/eng.unicharset > > . In the README file there is: > > Non-Windows: > You have to tell Tesseract through a standard unix mechanism where to find > its data directory. You must either: > ./configure > make > make install > to move the data files to the standard place, or: > export TESSDATA_PREFIX="directory in which your tessdata resides/" > (or equivalent) in your .profile or whatever or setenv to set the environment > variable. Note that the directory must end in a / > HAVING tesseract and tessdata IN THE SAME DIRECTORY DOES NOT WORK ANY MORE. > > > . I tried with `export TESSDATA_PREFIX="/usr/local/share/tessdata/"', but > nothing. Now I'm stuck. Any suggestion please? Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]