terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'

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terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'

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Hello,

First thanks for your job. I am trying to run tesseract 4 but I am getting an issue:

Info in bmfCreate: Generating pixa of bitmap fonts from string terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted (core dumped)

Step to reproduce (with a docker file):

FROM ubuntu
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
	autoconf \
	automake \
	libtool \
	autoconf-archive \
	pkg-config \
	libpng12-dev \
	libjpeg8-dev \
	libtiff5-dev \
	zlib1g-dev \ 
	libicu-dev \
	libpango1.0-dev \
	libcairo2-dev \
	git \
	curl && \
	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN curl http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz -o leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz && \
	tar -zxvf leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz && \
	cd leptonica-1.74.1 && ./configure && make && make install && \
	cd .. && rm -rf leptonica*

RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git && \
	cd tesseract && \
	./autogen.sh && \
	./configure --enable-debug && \
	LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" make && \
	make install && \
	ldconfig && \
	make training && \
	make training-install && \
	cd .. && rm -rf tesseract

# Get basic traineddata
RUN curl https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata > eng.traineddata && \
	mv eng.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/

RUN curl https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/fra.traineddata > fra.traineddata && \
	mv fra.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/

Then:

docker build -t tesseract4 .
docker run tesseract4
docker run -t -i tesseract4 /bin/bash
mkdir test
cd test
curl http://tleyden-misc.s3.amazonaws.com/blog_images/ocr_test.png > test.png
tesseract test.png out

Can someone explain me what is happening?

For information I have 2471 megabytes of memory remaning

Thanks in advance

Answer 1 · 2017-05-07T09:27:09.000Z

If you already built it under Ubuntu, you should be able to use it directly.

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On May 7, 2017 1:14 PM, "speedfl" ***@***.***> wrote: Hello, First thanks for your job. I am trying to run tesseract 4 but I am getting an issue: Info in bmfCreate: Generating pixa of bitmap fonts from string terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted (core dumped) Step to reproduce (with a docker file): ` FROM ubuntu RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ autoconf \ automake \ libtool \ autoconf-archive \ pkg-config \ libpng12-dev \ libjpeg8-dev \ libtiff5-dev \ zlib1g-dev \ libicu-dev \ libpango1.0-dev \ libcairo2-dev \ git \ curl && \ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN curl http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz -o leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz && \ tar -zxvf leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz && \ cd leptonica-1.74.1 && ./configure && make && make install && \ cd .. && rm -rf leptonica* RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git && \ cd tesseract && \ ./autogen.sh && \ ./configure --enable-debug && \ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" make && \ make install && \ ldconfig && \ make training && \ make training-install && \ cd .. && rm -rf tesseract # Get basic traineddata RUN curl https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata > eng.traineddata && \ mv eng.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/ RUN curl https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/fra.traineddata > fra.traineddata && \ mv fra.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/ ` Then: docker build -t tesseract4 docker run tesseract4 docker run -t -i tesseract4 /bin/bash mkdir test cd test curl http://tleyden-misc.s3. amazonaws.com/blog_images/ocr_test.png > test.png tesseract test.png out Can someone explain me what is happening? For information I have 2471 megabytes of memory remaning Thanks in advance — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#893>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE2_o4aI-YeOByGqOjU1pYXUCW5nMGQ0ks5r3XZPgaJpZM4NTDSf> .

Answer 2 · 2017-05-07T11:06:48.000Z

I did not built it with ubuntu.
I read in the referenced issue that we should not use it in docker image. Do you know why ?
I need to use it in such way

Answer 3 · 2017-05-07T11:14:21.000Z

I do not know about docker images.

I thought @amitdo was referring to --enable-debug option of configure.

Answer 4 · 2017-05-07T11:17:58.000Z

I will try to use it without enabled-debug option and give you the output

Answer 5 · 2017-05-07T15:22:30.000Z

I try using with and without --enable-debug and nothing is working.

Still the same issue:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc

My issue is not a build failure.

Build is going well. The issue is when I launch tesseract

EDIT: I made a try outside of a docker image by simply running the command manually and I have the same error with or without the --enable-debug

Answer 6 · 2017-05-07T15:54:29.000Z

Error message Info in bmfCreate: Generating pixa of bitmap fonts

is similar to #873

Answer 7 · 2017-05-07T15:57:22.000Z

That error/info message is from Leptonica

https://github.com/cotdp/leptonica/blob/master/src/bmf.c

Answer 8 · 2017-05-07T16:01:18.000Z

Please check where leptonica is installed. Do you have multiple versions?

Answer 9 · 2017-05-07T16:07:41.000Z

Concerning the multiple version I have only one installed.
I won't be able to see installation directory tonight because I deleted my instance aws. I will create a new one tomorrow. Can you tell me the normal installation directory so I can check tomorrow ?
However according the "make" documentation it should be in /usr/bin

Answer 10 · 2017-05-07T16:16:02.000Z

@speedfl No need to rebuild. I have not used docker so was just guessing.

@xlight #817 (comment) maybe able to help.

Answer 11 · 2017-05-08T09:44:38.000Z

Here is my configuration:

root@65369dfbb4d0:/# tesseract -v
tesseract 4.00.00alpha
 leptonica-1.74.1
  libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2) : libpng 1.2.54 : libtiff 4.0.6 : zlib 1.2.8

 Found AVX
 Found SSE

And here is where I found tesseract packages

root@65369dfbb4d0:/# find / -name "*tesseract*"
/usr/local/include/tesseract
/usr/local/bin/tesseract
/usr/local/lib/libtesseract.so.4
/usr/local/lib/libtesseract.so
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tesseract.pc
/usr/local/lib/libtesseract.la
/usr/local/lib/libtesseract.a
/usr/local/lib/libtesseract.so.4.0.0

Still the same issue...

I am going to try with leptonica-1.74

Answer 12 · 2017-05-08T10:02:30.000Z

BTW, the info message from leptonica is probably not related to the terminate error.

Please try to build again with latest source of tesseract from github.

Answer 13 · 2017-05-08T10:05:06.000Z

I just did it (restarted from scratch 5 minutes ago and same error)

Here is what I found:

root@1cd9578cac1d:/test/tesseract4# find / -name "*liblept*"
/usr/local/lib/liblept.so.5.0.1
/usr/local/lib/liblept.a
/usr/local/lib/liblept.la
/usr/local/lib/liblept.so.5
/usr/local/lib/liblept.so
root@1cd9578cac1d:/test/tesseract4# find / -name "*leptonica*"
/usr/local/include/leptonica

EDIT: Same error with leptonica 1.74 and 1.74.1 :(

What is the minimum resources configuration to run it?

Answer 14 · 2017-05-08T10:16:49.000Z

what output do you get for

tesseract -v

Answer 15 · 2017-05-08T10:17:36.000Z

Use GDB to get more info about the cause of the issue.

Answer 16 · 2017-05-08T10:18:08.000Z

Asi in my previous comment I had:

root@65369dfbb4d0:/# tesseract -v
tesseract 4.00.00alpha
 leptonica-1.74.1
  libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2) : libpng 1.2.54 : libtiff 4.0.6 : zlib 1.2.8

 Found AVX
 Found SSE

And now

root@1cd9578cac1d:/test/tesseract4# tesseract -v
tesseract 4.00.00alpha
 leptonica-1.74
  libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2) : libpng 1.2.54 : libtiff 4.0.6 : zlib 1.2.8

 Found AVX
 Found SSE

And same issue

Answer 17 · 2017-05-08T10:19:46.000Z

if gdb is --enable-debug I was running with it inside and outside a docker container and what I got:

Info in bmfCreate: Generating pixa of bitmap fonts from string terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' 
what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted (core dumped)

Without global debug I just get the:

what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted (core dumped)

If not I never tried it. How to activate it?

Answer 18 · 2017-05-08T10:34:03.000Z

How do you run GDB?

#256 (comment)

Answer 19 · 2017-05-08T10:37:10.000Z

Also, have you tried a tiff or jpg file or the test files from tesseract repo. Could be an issue with the version of libpng ??

Answer 20 · 2017-05-08T10:47:23.000Z

@Shreeshrii I just tested with JPG and tiff and still not working (with same issue)
http://read.pudn.com/downloads196/sourcecode/app/924338/OCR/OCR/TEST_2.JPG
https://github.com/nam-leduc/positioning/raw/master/test1.tif

@amitdo
When I use gdb

Starting program: /usr/local/bin/tesseract test.png out
warning: Error disabling address space randomization: Operation not permitted
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  std::bad_alloc
During startup program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.

Answer 21 · 2017-05-08T11:31:01.000Z

curl https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata > eng.traineddata does not get the expected data file, but gets a HTML redirection file:

<html><body>You are being <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/master/eng.traineddata">redirected</a>.</body></html>

Use curl -LO https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata (and similar for other languages), then Tesseract with Docker works for me. With the bad data file, I get an error message:

# tesseract ocr_test.png out -l bad
Info in bmfCreate: Generating pixa of bitmap fonts from string
Error opening data file /usr/local/share/bad.traineddata
Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to your "tessdata" directory.
Failed loading language 'bad'
Tesseract couldn't load any languages!
Could not initialize tesseract.

Answer 22 · 2017-05-08T12:42:46.000Z

Men it works pefectly!!!

Thanks. The issue is only due to the redirection.

With correct download it is working

You can close the issue. But maybe a littple update on the docker file with example of the download would be great)

Here is the final dockerfile (base on @xlight first draft)

FROM ubuntu
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
	autoconf \
	automake \
	libtool \
	autoconf-archive \
	pkg-config \
	libpng12-dev \
	libjpeg8-dev \
	libtiff5-dev \
	zlib1g-dev \ 
	libicu-dev \
	libpango1.0-dev \
	libcairo2-dev \
	git \
	curl && \
	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN curl http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz -o leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz && \
	tar -zxvf leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz && \
	cd leptonica-1.74.1 && ./configure && make && make install && \
	cd .. && rm -rf leptonica*

RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git && \
	cd tesseract && \
	./autogen.sh && \
	./configure && \
	LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" make && \
	make install && \
	ldconfig && \
	make training && \
	make training-install && \
	cd .. && rm -rf tesseract

# Get basic traineddata
RUN curl -LO https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata && \
	mv eng.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/

RUN curl -LO https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/fra.traineddata && \
	mv fra.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/

Answer 23 · 2017-05-08T12:46:23.000Z

Shouldn't it be curl -LO instead of curl -Lo (upper case O instead of lower case o)?

I'm also still surprised that my docker test produced a different kind of error with the wrong trained data files.

Answer 24 · 2017-05-08T12:48:49.000Z

Sorry updated (typo issue :))

Answer 25 · 2017-05-08T12:52:15.000Z

we can also use:

git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata && \
mv  -v tessdata/* /usr/local/share/tessdata/ && \
rm -rf tessadata

To have all the languages

Answer 26 · 2017-05-10T08:03:29.000Z

@zdenop Issue can be closed. #893 (comment)

Answer 27 · 2017-05-12T12:39:29.000Z

Added page to wiki - https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/4.0-Dockerfile

Answer 28 · 2017-05-14T20:57:48.000Z

~~Tesseract should verify that the tessdata file is a TIFF file.~~

Answer 29 · 2017-05-15T03:03:24.000Z

@stweil Should the basic traineddata be osd and eng in the dockerfile that I posted on the wiki?

@amitdo Is the tessdata a tiff file???

Answer 30 · 2017-05-15T03:12:18.000Z

My installer for Windows includes both files unconditionally. I think they should be in the docker container, too.

Answer 31 · 2017-05-15T03:44:51.000Z

Thanks! I have updated https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/4.0-Dockerfile

Please review and add any other required files (eg. configs etc.) to the docker container.

Answer 32 · 2017-05-15T07:08:40.000Z

@amitdo Is the tessdata a tiff file???

I thought that it is a TIFF file without the tiff extension. I was wrong.

Answer 33 · 2017-05-18T08:46:04.000Z

#919 (comment)

Definitions of Docker containers and scripts that help to compile and run Tesseract 4 are available at:

https://github.com/tesseract-shadow/tesseract-ocr-compilation