Re: Language downloads on the website

2012-10-21 Thread Nick White
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:07:17PM +0200, zdenko podobny wrote: > I have no idea how it works on Mac. I looked into this today actually, when rewriting the ReadMe. It looks like the homebrew package asks if you want to install all the language files, and if so it just unpacks each one to the tessd

Re: Language downloads on the website

2012-10-21 Thread TP
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM, zdenko podobny wrote: > Personally I would prefer if tesseract/combine_tessdata can handle > (un)compression. tesseract already depends on leptonica which (at least for tiff and png support) also depends on zlib. So I suppose it should be relatively easy to do thi

Re: Language downloads on the website

2012-10-21 Thread Nick White
Hi Zdenko, > For several years I remember no question how to install language data file, > but > there were several questions how to run tesseract (some Windows folks had no > clue about command line). > > ... > > Your suggestion is solving only one (IMO small) problem and it create more > proble

Language downloads on the website

2012-10-21 Thread Nick White
Hi all, At present trainingdata files are distributed on the website inside .tar.gz containers. That strikes me as unnecessary, given that it's only one file, and it adds a confusing installation step for non- technical Windows folks. What do people think about just distributing straight .trained