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formula for homebrew tesseract attempt
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require 'formula' | |
class TesseractEnglishData <Formula | |
url 'http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-2.00.eng.tar.gz' | |
md5 'b8291d6b3a63ce7879d688e845e341a9' | |
version '2.00' | |
end | |
class Tesseract <Formula | |
url 'http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-3.00.tar.gz' | |
homepage 'http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/' | |
md5 'cc812a261088ea0c3d2da735be35d09f' | |
depends_on 'libtiff' | |
depends_on 'leptonica' | |
skip_clean :all | |
def install | |
fails_with_llvm "Executable 'tesseract' segfaults on 10.6 when compiled with llvm-gcc", :build => "2206" | |
# 'make install' expects the language data files in the build directory | |
d = Dir.getwd | |
TesseractEnglishData.new.brew { cp Dir["*"], "#{d}/tessdata/" } | |
system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--disable-debug", "--disable-dependency-tracking" | |
system "make install" | |
end | |
def caveats; <<-EOF.undent | |
Tesseract is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine. | |
The easiest way to use it is to convert the source to a Grayscale tiff: | |
`convert source.png -type Grayscale terre_input.tif` | |
then run tesseract: | |
`tesseract terre_input.tif output` | |
EOF | |
end | |
end |
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