tesseract-5.5.3

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r13.1-84

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# tesseract-5.5.3

## Introduction to tesseract

The tesseract package provides an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine and command-line program used to extract printed text from images.

### Note

Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/5.5.3/tesseract-5.5.3.tar.gz

- Download MD5 sum: 561b6b104238fffa1d00362ac72ea397

- Download size: 1.8 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 210 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4)

### tesseract Dependencies

#### Required

leptonica-1.87.0

#### Recommended

cURL-8.22.0, ICU-78.3, libarchive-3.8.9, and Pango-1.58.2

## Installation of tesseract

Install tesseract by running the following commands:

    ./autogen.sh &&

    ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
    make

The package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Contents

Installed Programs: tesseract
Installed Library: libtesseract.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/tessdata/configs and /usr/share/tessdata/tessconfigs

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