FreeBSD tesseract installation - missing configs dir

[SKB-CGN]

Hi,
when installing tesseract on FreeBSD, the configs dir, which should be in "/usr/local/share/tessdata/" is not created.

It was necessary for me, to download the complete package from here, extract the configs folder and place it on my server.

After that, tesseract was working fine.

Please fix that!

[stweil]

Which version of Tesseract did you try to install?
How did you build / install Tesseract?

Additional information is needed to understand, reproduce and finally fix the issue.

[SKB-CGN]

HI,
i installed the folllowing:
pkg install tesseract-5.0.0 tesseract-data-4.1.0

After that, i ran the following command:
ocrmypdf -v --redo-ocr 2020_11_30_Kellerdecke_neu.pdf Keller_neu.pdf

This told me, that tesseract was not able to open "params_file" txt and pdf. So, ocrmypdf didnt create such a file.

I downloaded the package from here, extracted the configs dir and placed it into the tessdata folder.

After that, it was working.

[stweil]

Did you report the problem to the maintainer of the FreeBSD package?

I am afraid here is the wrong place for your report.

[stweil]

Cc'ing @pkubaj (maintainer of FreeBSD tesseract-5.0.0).

[SKB-CGN]

Where is that package located?

[stweil]

It looks like FreeBSD uses the cmake build. Debian bases distributions use the autotools build (which I normally use, too).

[stweil]

Where is that package located?

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=tesseract-5.0.0
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/graphics/tesseract

[SKB-CGN]

Ok.
And who is maintaining this package? Because i installed it via pkg.

[stweil]

@egorpugin, I just tried make install with a cmake build. It did not install /usr/local/share/tessdata. Is that a regression compared to 4.1.3?

[egorpugin]

Does it work on 4.1.3?

[stweil]

I simply did not know, that's why I asked. Now I have run a test with 4.1.3, and it also does not install tessdata. So this is not a regression. Nevertheless it might be added to the cmake build, too.

[amitdo]

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/freebsd-vm

Maybe someone here wants to use this and write an action to test Tesseract on FreeBSD.

[egorpugin]

I did not implement our cmake install.
Probably it was contributed via PRs, so not every expected functionality might present.

[stweil]

Maybe that is also not necessary. @pkubaj, could FreeBSD use autotools like the other distributions?

[pkubaj]

I switched back to autotools, please test.