How to implement Tesseract to run with project in Visual Studio 2010

Question

I have a C++ project in Visual Studio 2010 and wish to use OCR. I came across many \"tutorials\" for Tesseract but sadly, all I got was a headache and wasted time.

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Answer 1

You need to use the library through the API.

Most probably:

• start by downlaoding the libs ( https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/detail?name=tesseract-3.02.02-win32-lib-include-dirs.zip&can=2&q= ). They're compiled with Visual 2008 but it should be enough

• Use the API directly (example, look at an open source project using it: https://code.google.com/p/qtesseract/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Ftessdata ) and read the links from this answer : How can i use tesseract ocr(or any other free ocr) in small c++ project?