Install Tesseract OCR libs from sources in Centos

1. Download Leptonica and Teseract sources:

$ wget http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.69.tar.gz

$ wget https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz

2. Configure, compile, install libs:

$ tar xzvf leptonica-1.69.tar.gz
$ cd leptonica-1.69
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

 
$ tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz
$ cd tesseract-3.01
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ldconfig

3. Download languages (english) and copy to tessdata folder:

$ wget http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz

$ tar xzf tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz

$ sudo cp tesseract-ocr/tessdata/* /usr/local/share/tessdata

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