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authorRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2010-07-01 00:07:58 -0500
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2010-07-01 00:07:58 -0500
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graphics/tesseract: Added (OCR engine)
This was dropped from the 13.1 repo due to build failure, but it's needed by tucan, so let's fix it and add it back. Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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+Tesseract is a commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP
+between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated
+by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.
+
+You will need to get one of the language packs in order to do anything
+useful with tesseract, and that language pack tarball should be present
+in the same directory as the SlackBuild script when the package is created.
+See http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list for a list of
+all available language packs. Note that you can install more than one
+(or even all) of the language packs, as they do not conflict with each
+other. The build script defaults to use English, but this is easily
+changed by passing an alternate value on the command line.
+
+Here is the relevant code from the build script:
+ # Language pack(s) to use
+ # We'll install English by default, but you can pass another one (or all)
+ # of them on the command line (space delimited). If you pass more than one
+ # (again, space delimited), you must enclose the string in quotes. Examples:
+ # TESSLANG=fra ./tesseract.SlackBuild
+ # TESSLANG="deu deu-f eng fra ita nld por spa vie" ./tesseract.SlackBuild
+ TESSLANG=${TESSLANG:-eng} # Default to English