Hello everyone, Forgive me if I sound irritated, but that's precisely what I am. I'm on a Linux mint machine and I have installed tesseract through apt-get.
The program works just fine through the command line, but I need to use the C++ API, so I tried following along here: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/APIExample. The problem is, I literally cannot even get the simple example program to compile past the first line when I try to include baseapi.h. I have copies of all the header files from the api/ , ccutil/ , ccmain/ , and ccstruct/ directories in the same directory as my program.cpp file, but when I try to compile, I still get errors, namely: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llept /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltesseract. Guys, I love Tesseract and am forever grateful to the people who are working on this and who make it freely available to the world, but all I want to do is use tesseract's API. I'm not asking for a lot. Instead, I have to fight with the software and spend hours figuring out a ridiculously complex setup process that should be simple and properly documented. I realize this is open-source software and that this is how it is sometimes, but the extent to which developers are expected to just figure this stuff out and spend hours researching how to get started is absurd. Again, forgive me for complaining, but I had to let out some steam. I appreciate any help you guys can give. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/438ddc33-6958-4ea2-aed8-40a22f3cda15%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
