How to install openALPR on a Raspberry Pi a/o 20160214

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#!/bin/bash

# STATUS A/O 2016 02 14: tested, works

# based on https://barclaysapps.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/openalpr-install-for-rpi-and-udoo-and-tre-and-yun/ ,
# http://lukagabric.com/raspberry-pi-license-plate-recognition/, and updated for new packages.
# there are other random notes and googled pages that also informed this tutorial whihc may not be specifically referenced.
#This is not optimized for space or whatever, but does work. well, not as of 2016 01 03 but working to fix that)
# discussion is at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openalpr/-vckIsPe618: please contribute if you can, and ask questions if you # # have them
# thanks to Timis for tips and hints...

# how to read:

# this is a heading, as denoted by the:
# on a line where you see some text -> some more text
# this is the text in the original tutorial -> this is what you should type instead
# note: this is a note: don't type this.
# if you see a line like this ; or // anything after the ';' or the '//' including the ';'  or '//' is a note and should not be typed

# installed and tested on a raspberry pi 2 model B 1GB using raspbian installed via noobs on a 32 GB memory card.
# note that an 8GB card will fill before this tutorial ends, so you will need a card bigger than that.
# Not tested on a 16GB card so no idea if that will work or not.

# Alternatively you can do the whole thing without using noobs following these steps:
# tested using a mac: your mileage on other systems may vary
# insert the memory card into a reader and plug into your computer usb port
# diskutil list
# diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3
# sudo dd bs=1m if=/Users/malcolm/Desktop/2016-02-09-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/rdisk3

# then remove fronm the reader, plug the card into the raspberry pi and connect it to your laptop using a usb power cord and an ethernet cable.
# be sure to be sharing internet access on the mac for this to work

# ping raspberrypi.local
# ssh pi@<ipaddfress>
# pw: raspberry

# sudo raspi-config
# expand the memory card in the menu items
# enable camera support in the menu items
# reboot


# download this tutorial:
# wget https://gist.github.com/amstanley/9da7febc9a3e3c2228ee/archive/888d43a54c4edee09fc452f8daae593884013245.zip
# unzip the resulting file, which should give you a doirectory with a file called gistfile1.txt inside it
# cd to the directory and make gistfile1.txt executable (chmod +x filename) so it can run as a script and then run it. 
# when it is done resume manual entry

# Create a log file of the build as well as displaying the build on the tty as it runs
exec > >(tee build_alpr_pi.log)
exec 2>&1

# Set Up the camera to stream mjpeg. to do this follow this tutorial exactly:
# http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=14
# the steps are: 

curl http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/lrkey.asc | sudo apt-key add -

# Add the following line to the file /etc/apt/sources.list (type sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list) :
sudo -- sh -c "echo deb http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/raspbian/ wheezy main >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
 
# Update and Upgrade the Pi, otherwise the build may fail due to inconsistencies
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y --force-yes

# Get the required libraries
sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes autoconf build-essential automake libtool  git cmake pkg-config      \
                                    libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev zlib1g-dev libjasper-dev       \
                                    libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev             \
                                    libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev libgtk2.0-dev libatlas-base-dev          \
                                    gfortran python2.7-dev python3-dev                                   \
                                    libcurl4-openssl-dev liblog4cplus-1.0-4 liblog4cplus-dev uuid-dev    \
                                    uv4l uv4l-raspicam uv4l-raspicam-extras uv4l-server uv4l-mjpegstream

# Clone openalpr:
cd /home/pi 
git clone https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr.git

# Create a directory and download libraries:
cd openalpr
mkdir libraries
cd libraries

git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git
git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata.git
wget http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.71.tar.gz
# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix/2.4.11/opencv-2.4.11.zip 
# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix/2.4.9/opencv-2.4.9.zip # trying alternate versions  as 2.4.11 fails to compile with ffmpeg.
wget -O opencv.zip https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/archive/3.1.0.zip
wget -O opencv_contrib.zip https://github.com/Itseez/opencv_contrib/archive/3.1.0.zip


# extract the packages:
tar -zxvf leptonica-1.71.tar.gz
# unzip opencv-2.4.9.zip
unzip opencv.zip
unzip opencv_contrib.zip

# clean up the downloads
rm leptonica-1.71.tar.gz
# rm opencv-2.4.9.zip
rm opencv.zip
rm opencv_contrib.zip

# compile leptonica:
cd leptonica-1.71
./configure
make -j4                
sudo make install

# compile tesseract:
cd ../tesseract
sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes autoconf automake libtool
./autogen.sh   # script crapped here, missing aclocal. ran sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes autoconf automake libtool, seemed to fix it.
./configure
make -j4
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
export TESSDATA_PREFIX=/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tessdata

# installing openCV 3 with Python 2.7
# see http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/10/26/how-to-install-opencv-3-on-raspbian-jessie/ 
# as referenced by timis at  https://groups.google.com/d/topic/openalpr/-vckIsPe618

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
sudo rm -rf ~/.cache/pip
echo 'export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs' >> ~/.profile
echo 'source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
mkvirtualenv cv
source ~/.profile
workon cv
pip install numpy

cd /home/pi/openalpr/libraries/opencv-3.1.0
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \
	-D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
	-D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=OFF \
	-D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON \
	-D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/opencv_contrib-3.1.0/modules \
	-D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON ..
make -j4
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ~/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cv2.so cv2.so

# Compile openALPR:
cd /home/pi/openalpr/src

# nano CMakeLists.txt
# add the following lines in the section near the top that has SET() statements
# SET(OpenCV_DIR "/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/opencv-2.4.11/release")
# SET(Tesseract_DIR "/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract")
# do this using sed
sed -i '11 i SET(Tesseract_DIR "/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract")' /home/pi/openalpr/src/CMakeLists.txt
sed -i '11 i SET(OpenCV_DIR "~/openalpr/libraries/opencv-3.1.0/build")' /home/pi/openalpr/src/CMakeLists.txt 

cmake ./
make -j4
sudo make install
sudo cp -r /usr/local/lib/* /lib 
# sudo cp /home/pi/openalpr/libraries/opencv-2.4.11/release/lib/* /lib
# note: seems like this last step is just a path issue... surely better way to do this)

# test the library (from https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr/wiki/Compilation-instructions-(Ubuntu-Linux)):
wget http://plates.openalpr.com/ea7the.jpg
alpr -c us ea7the.jpg

# result: 
# plate0: 10 results
#    - EA7THE	 confidence: 92.4795
#    - EA7TBE	 confidence: 84.0421
#    - EA7TRE	 confidence: 83.1932
#    - EA7TE	 confidence: 82.0527
#    - EA7T8E	 confidence: 81.7845
#    - EA7TME	 confidence: 80.8062
#    - EA7THB	 confidence: 76.6468
#    - EA7TH6	 confidence: 76.6153
#    - EA7TH	 confidence: 75.2232
#    - EA7TBB	 confidence: 68.2095

# wget http://plates.openalpr.com/h786poj.jpg
# alpr -c eu h786poj.jpg

#edit the alprd daemon config:
# cd /etc/openalpr
# sudo nano alprd.conf

# below the line that says '[daemon]' add or edit the foloowing lines to look like this:

# ; country determines the training dataset used for recognizing plates. Valid values are us, eu
# country = us

#; text name identifier for this location
# site_id = raspberry_pi

#; Declare each stream on a separate line
#; each unique stream should be defined as stream = [url]

#stream = http://127.0.0.1:8080/stream/video.mjpeg
#;stream = http://127.0.0.1/example_second_stream.mjpeg
#;stream = webcam

#; topn is the number of possible plate character variations to report
#topn = 10

#; Determines whether images that contain plates should be stored to disk
#store_plates = 0
#store_plates_location = /var/lib/openalpr/plateimages/
#
#; upload address is the destination to POST to
#upload_data = 0
#upload_address = http://localhost:9000/push/

#Save the file, exit, and type:
# sudo service uv4l_raspicam restart
# alprd -f 
# and see if the daemon connects to the stream.

-bash: cd: /etc/openalpr: No such file or directory

Hey, the script is failing at 'make -j4' of tesseract (line 116)
with this error:

pi@raspberrypi:~/openalpr/libraries/tesseract $ make -j4
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract'
Making all in arch
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract/arch'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract/arch'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -O2 -DNDEBUG -I../ccutil -I/usr/local/include/leptonica -pthread -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -mavx -g -O2 -std=c++11 -MT libtesseract_avx_la-dotproductavx.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libtesseract_avx_la-dotproductavx.Tpo -c -o libtesseract_avx_la-dotproductavx.lo test -f 'dotproductavx.cpp' || echo './'dotproductavx.cpp
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -O2 -DNDEBUG -I../ccutil -I/usr/local/include/leptonica -pthread -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -msse4.1 -g -O2 -std=c++11 -MT libtesseract_sse_la-dotproductsse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libtesseract_sse_la-dotproductsse.Tpo -c -o libtesseract_sse_la-dotproductsse.lo test -f 'dotproductsse.cpp' || echo './'dotproductsse.cpp
libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -O2 -DNDEBUG -I../ccutil -I/usr/local/include/leptonica -pthread -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -mavx -g -O2 -std=c++11 -MT libtesseract_avx_la-dotproductavx.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libtesseract_avx_la-dotproductavx.Tpo -c dotproductavx.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libtesseract_avx_la-dotproductavx.o
g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-mavx'
Makefile:537: recipe for target 'libtesseract_avx_la-dotproductavx.lo' failed
make[3]: *** [libtesseract_avx_la-dotproductavx.lo] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -O2 -DNDEBUG -I../ccutil -I/usr/local/include/leptonica -pthread -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -msse4.1 -g -O2 -std=c++11 -MT libtesseract_sse_la-dotproductsse.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libtesseract_sse_la-dotproductsse.Tpo -c dotproductsse.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libtesseract_sse_la-dotproductsse.o
g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-msse4.1'
Makefile:544: recipe for target 'libtesseract_sse_la-dotproductsse.lo' failed
make[3]: *** [libtesseract_sse_la-dotproductsse.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract/arch'
Makefile:584: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract/arch'
Makefile:478: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract'
Makefile:386: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any idea what to do?

I had the above issue too. It seems to be due to a new version of tesseract and some changes to the compile flags on the master branch that are not compatible with the pi. I resolved this by checking out the tag of the release version that is compatible with this gist. The checkout should be done immediately after cloning the tesseract repo:

cd /home/pi/openalpr/libraries/tesseract/
git checkout tags/3.04.00
cd -

Also, if you are running Rasberrian Jessie (instead of wheezy as indicated in the instructions), the apt source for uv4l is different (inserted by line 65 into /etc/apt/sources.list). You will need to change...

deb http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/raspbian/ wheezy main

to

deb http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/raspbian/ jessie main

in /etc/apt/sources.list

Don't forget to update your sources with:

sudo apt-get update

Dear Friends
wget leptonica is 1.74 version now
wget http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.74.tar.gz
bye :)