Tess4j doesn't use it's tessdata folder

Question

I am using tess4j, the java wrapper of Tesseract. I also have the normal Tesseract installed. I am not exactly sure how tess4j is meant to work, but since it comes with a te

Answer 1

For those that use maven and don't like to use global variables, this works for me:

File imageFile = new File("C:\\random.png");
Tesseract instance = Tesseract.getInstance();

//In case you don't have your own tessdata, let it also be extracted for you
File tessDataFolder = LoadLibs.extractTessResources("tessdata");

//Set the tessdata path
instance.setDatapath(tessDataFolder.getAbsolutePath());

try {
    String result = instance.doOCR(imageFile);
    System.out.println(result);
} catch (TesseractException e) {
    System.err.println(e.getMessage());
}

found here, tested with maven -> net.sourceforge.tess4j:tess4j:3.4.1, also the link use 1.4.1 jar