Installing Tesseract-OCR on CentOS 6

Question

I\'m trying to install Tesseract-OCR on my server however when I install all what I believe to be the correct repos. When I try to install it the package is not found

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Answer 1

Install Tesseract OCR libs from sources (UPDATED as on 14th July 2018)

Download Leptonica and Teseract sources:

$ wget http://www.leptonica.com/source/leptonica-1.76.0.tar.gz

$ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr-alt/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz

Configure, compile, install Leptonica:

$ tar xzvf leptonica-1.76.0.tar.gz
$ cd leptonica-1.76.0
$ ./configure & make & sudo make install

Configure, compile, install Tesseract:

$ tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz
$ cd tesseract-ocr
$ ./autogen.sh & ./configure & make & sudo make install & sudo ldconfig

Download language file:

I am downloading english language file(eng.traineddata) here. You can see complete list of language files here and download as per your need. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Data-Files#data-files-for-version-302

Download languages (english) and copy to tessdata folder:

$ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr-alt/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz
$ tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz
$ sudo cp tesseract-ocr/tessdata/* /usr/local/share/tessdata

Now your Tesseract OCR is installed and ready to use! Example:

$tesseract /path/to/input/test.jpg /path/to/output/abc.txt -l eng

Enjoy!!!