repoforge/rpms — Issue #84: tesseract missing default language data
Author: hm2k
Created: 2011-11-22 10:21:13+00:00
State: open

I did a yum install on CentOS4:

>yum install tesseract --enable=rpmforge

All went OK, however there is no default language file:

> root@svr [~]# tesseract x y
>Unable to load unicharset file /usr/share/tesseract/tessdata/eng.unicharset

The issue is outlined here:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=151

It says that the language files should be installed before tesseract is made and installed.

My advice would be to include the eng lang by default, or create a new repo called say tesseract-eng which needs to be installed first...