Ubuntu
Install Tesseract by running below commands -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr sudo apt-get update sudo apt install tesseract-ocr sudo apt install libtesseract-dev
Install OpenCV –
- Download or clone the repo: https://github.com/jayrambhia/Install-OpenCV
- Go to Ubuntu/dependencies.sh and change lines install_dependency libgstreamer0.10-dev to install_dependency libgstreamer1.0-dev and install_dependency libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev to install_dependency libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
- Follow the steps of https://github.com/jayrambhia/Install-OpenCV/blob/master/README.md to install in Ubuntu
Download pre-trained model from - https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata
Move the model into directory - /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/eng.traineddata
Compile code -
g++ -O3 -std=c++11 basic_ocr.cpp pkg-config --cflags --libs tesseract opencv -o main_ocr
Run executable -
./main_ocr <image_path>/