Tesseract + opencv 3.0 + windows, text module small size, linking errors

Question

I posted this text two days ago in answers.opencv.org, now I\'m posting it here as well. http://answers.opencv.org/question/68634/text-contrib-module-and-tesseract/

Answer 1

I was facing the same problem. The solution I came up with was to edit the CMakeLists.txt file in text module.

Replace

if(${Tesseract_FOUND})
include_directories(${Tesseract_INCLUDE_DIR})
endif()

with

add_definitions( -DWINDOWS)
add_definitions( -DNOMINMAX)
SET(Tesseract_DIR "C:\\tesseract-build\\tesseract-ocr")
SET(Lept_DIR "C:\\tesseract-build\\lib")
include_directories(
        ${Tesseract_DIR}/api
        ${Tesseract_DIR}/ccutil/
        ${Tesseract_DIR}/ccstruct/
        ${Tesseract_DIR}/ccmain/
    )
link_directories( ${Tesseract_DIR}/vs2013/bin/Win32/DLL_Release/
                  ${Lept_DIR}/
                  ${Lept_DIR}/Win32/
                )   

When you run Cmake, Tesseract will still be no and the Tessaract/Lept libraries should be empty.