Tesseract installation problem

Question

I installed Leptonica and then I tried to install Tesseract. Everything went fine until the last step make install

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/michalp/tesseract-ocr/ccutil'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/michalp/tesseract-ocr/ccutil'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/michalp/tesseract-ocr/ccutil'
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/include/tesseract'
/bin/mkdir: directory „/usr/local/include/tesseract“ can not be created: Operation failed

note: the error message was translated into English, but the meaning is OK. It's clear to me that it's caused by not having su permissions. What is the easiest way to change the directory used?

Accepted Answer

Okay, looking at the source documentation I was able to install both (for English) in this way:

Install Leptonica

mkdir -p $HOME/tmp export TEMPDIR=$HOME/tmp mkdir -p $HOME/src cd src wget http://www.leptonica.com/source/leptonica-1.72.tar.gz tar xzf leptonica-1.72.tar.gz cd leptonica-1.72 ./configure --prefix=$HOME make make install

Install tesseract-ocr

cd $HOME/src wget https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz wget https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz cd tesseract-ocr ./autogen.sh LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=$HOME/include/leptonica LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/lib" ./configure --prefix=$HOME make make install

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Answer 2

I needed to use Tesseract lately and because of the server migration I had to reinstall it. The project has moved to Github, I installed version 3.04, I didn't find new language packs, however it works as expected, so it seems to be all right.

mkdir -p $HOME/tmp
export TEMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
mkdir -p $HOME/src
cd src
wget http://www.leptonica.com/source/leptonica-1.73.tar.gz
tar xzf leptonica-1.73.tar.gz
cd leptonica-1.73
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

cd $HOME/src
wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/3.04.00.tar.gz
tar xzf 3.04.00.tar.gz
wget https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz
tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz
cd tesseract-3.04.00
./autogen.sh
LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=$HOME/include/leptonica LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/lib" ./configure --prefix=$HOME
make 
make install

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