I have compiled tesseract for using it in xcode following: http://iphone.olipion.com/cross-compilation/tesseract-ocr
I obtain the .a file, import it as framework in
http://github.com/nolanbrown/Tesseract-iPhone-Demo
OCRDemo is a demo application that utilizes the Tesseract library (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) as a static library compiled under Mac OS 10.6 using the shell script found at http://robertcarlsen.net/2009/07/15/cross-compiling-for-iphone-dev-884.
The program is only meant to provide a demonstration of the OCR library and it’s abilities on the iPhone, the program is not optimized in any way...
you'll need to update SDKROOT
, CPPFLAGS
and CXX
variables. For example, here's the relevant part of my build script,
modified to work with 4.0:
export SDKROOT=$DEVROOT/SDKs/iPhoneOS4.0.sdk
export PATH=$DEVROOT/usr/bin:$PATH
# Set up relevant environment variables
export CPPFLAGS="-I$SDKROOT/usr/lib/gcc/arm-apple-darwin10/4.0.1/
include/ -I$SDKROOT/usr/include/ -miphoneos-version-min=4.0"
export CFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -arch armv6 -pipe -no-cpp-precomp -isysroot
$SDKROOT"
export CPP="$DEVROOT/usr/bin/cpp $CPPFLAGS"
export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
LIBPATH=$LIBFILE.dylib
LIBNAME=`basename $LIBPATH`
export LDFLAGS="-L$SDKROOT/usr/lib/ -Wl,-
dylib_install_name,@executable_path/$LIBNAME"
LIBPATH_static=$LIBFILE.a
LIBNAME_static=`basename $LIBPATH_static`
# TODO: add custom flags as necessary for package
./configure CXX=$DEVROOT/usr/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-g++-4.0.1 CC=
$DEVROOT/usr/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.0.1 LD=$DEVROOT/usr/bin/ld --host=arm-apple-darwin