openalpr.deb for ubuntu 14.04 lts ?

[Alex Demenschonok]

hi, 

i've been following instruction and still getting error:

{code}

root:/usr/local/src/openalpr/src# cmake ./

Tesseract_INCLUDE_BASEAPI_DIR=/usr/include

Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCSTRUCT_DIR=Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCSTRUCT_DIR-NOTFOUND

Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCMAIN_DIR=Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCMAIN_DIR-NOTFOUND

Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCUTIL_DIR=Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCUTIL_DIR-NOTFOUND

Tesseract_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include;/usr/include

Tesseract_LIB=/usr/lib/libtesseract.so

Leptonica_LIB=/usr/local/lib/liblept.so

Tesseract_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libtesseract.so;/usr/local/lib/liblept.so;/usr/lib/libtesseract.so;/usr/local/lib/liblept.so

CMake Error at cmake_modules/LibFindMacros.cmake:74 (message):

  Required library Tesseract NOT FOUND.

  Install the library (dev version) and try again.  If the library is already

  installed, use ccmake to set the missing variables manually.

Call Stack (most recent call first):

  cmake_modules/FindTesseract.cmake:72 (libfind_process)

  CMakeLists.txt:23 (FIND_PACKAGE)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

See also "/usr/local/src/openalpr/src/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
{code}

wondering has anyone compile deb package to install on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ?
or virtualbox image to play with it.... 

thnx,

alex

[Vladimir Radnovic]

Alex to you folov this https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr/wiki/Compilation-instructions-(Ubuntu-Linux)

I test and work 100%

tnx

vladimir

[Tom Steven]

Hi Alex,

I got the same prob before and i think you need to update your CMakelist and openalpr.conf

Cheers,

[Alex Demenschonok]

vladimir,

thank you for reply.

i've tried on two separate hosts running 14.04 and followed instructions "harder" ones.... dot to dot... till step 8

and got same error  "Required library Tesseract NOT FOUND."

while package is installed and working :

# tesseract -v

tesseract 3.02.02

 leptonica-1.70

  libjpeg 8d : libpng 1.2.50 : libtiff 4.0.3 : zlib 1.2.8

can you please list your  /usr/local/src/openalpr/openalpr/src/CMakeList.txt

from your successful install ?  

thnx,

alex

PS.  tesseract is installed :

[Alex Demenschonok]

Tom,

would you be so kind and lst these two files ? i'll see diff with mine ones.

thnx,

alex

[Alex Demenschonok]

hi...

i managed to fix CMakeList by including following lines:

SET(OpenCV_DIR    "/usr/local/lib")

SET(Tesseract_DIR "/usr/local/src/openalpr/tesseract-ocr")

SET(Tesseract_INCLUDE_BASEAPI_DIR "${Tesseract_DIR}/api")

SET(Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCSTRUCT_DIR "${Tesseract_DIR}/ccstruct")

SET(Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCMAIN_DIR " ${Tesseract_DIR}/ccmain")

SET(Tesseract_INCLUDE_CCUTIL_DIR "${Tesseract_DIR}/ccutil")

SET(Tesseract_INCLUDE_DIRS "/usr/local/include")

<skipped>

# cmake ./ -Wno-dev

-- Found Tesseract 

-- Configuring done

-- Generating done

-- Build files have been written to: /usr/local/src/openalpr/openalpr/src

# make clean

# make

[  1%] Building CXX object video/CMakeFiles/video.dir/videobuffer.cpp.o

Linking CXX static library libvideo.a

[  1%] Built target video

[  3%] Building CXX object openalpr/support/CMakeFiles/support.dir/filesystem.cpp.o

[  5%] Building CXX object openalpr/support/CMakeFiles/support.dir/timing.cpp.o

[  7%] Building CXX object openalpr/support/CMakeFiles/support.dir/tinythread.cpp.o

[  9%] Building CXX object openalpr/support/CMakeFiles/support.dir/platform.cpp.o

Linking CXX static library libsupport.a

[  9%] Built target support

[ 11%] Building CXX object openalpr/CMakeFiles/openalpr-static.dir/alpr.cpp.o

[ 13%] Building CXX object openalpr/CMakeFiles/openalpr-static.dir/alpr_impl.cpp.o

/usr/local/src/openalpr/openalpr/src/openalpr/alpr_impl.cpp: In member function ‘std::vector<AlprResult> AlprImpl::recognize(std::string, std::vector<AlprRegionOfInterest>)’:

/usr/local/src/openalpr/openalpr/src/openalpr/alpr_impl.cpp:182:38: error: ‘CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR’ was not declared in this scope

   cv::Mat img = cv::imread(filepath, CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR);

                                      ^

make[2]: *** [openalpr/CMakeFiles/openalpr-static.dir/alpr_impl.cpp.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [openalpr/CMakeFiles/openalpr-static.dir/all] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

any ideas where to declare " CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR" ?

thnx,

alex

[Matt]

Alex,

CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR is a constant declared within OpenCV (cv::CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR).  Perhaps try removing the SET(OpenCV_DIR    "/usr/local/lib") directive.  It should be possible to find the OpenCV library without that, if it's installed via Ubuntu APT.

Did you compile and install OpenCV manually?  If so, try using a prefix of /usr/ (rather than /usr/local/).

-Matt

[Alex Demenschonok]

Matt,

both suggestions did not help. i've installed OpenCV manually "harder" way.... my host is Ubuntu 14.04 lts server and does not have GUI installed. 

i will try to troubleshoot further and keep you posted.  it would be nice to have stable VM to download to play with this openalpr package 

without wasting time on compiling issues.

thnx,

alex

[Matt]

Alex,

I agree about making things easier to run the binary.  A VM would be fairly significant maintenance, though.  I've packaged up the project for distribution with Debian (which Ubuntu could pick up downstream) but none of the Debian developers have picked it up yet.  Perhaps a private PPA repo would help make the install easier.

Your problem seems to be related to your install of OpenCV.  It's not finding the include directories.  The cmake script that I'm using to find OpenCV is standard (unlike the Tesseract one which I customized).  So something about your OpenCV install is probably unusual.