Alright! I installed leptonica and tesseract from source and now things are working. Thanks, Rolf, for helping me pinpoint the source of the problem!
On Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 3:22:40 PM UTC-4, Rolf Mertig wrote: > > Hello, > did you build leptonica and tesseract from source? > I did so with leptonica 1.73 and the master branch of tesseract, in debian > jessie, > and > g++ -o basicexample basicexample.cpp -llept -ltesseract > just compiled and running ./basicexample works. > > Am Samstag, 7. Mai 2016 21:06:55 UTC+2 schrieb [email protected]: >> >> 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/1e056323-1d3d-46db-8896-cc8fc6f626e4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
