help installing tesseract-ocr on my windows 7 computer

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I have a windows 7 64 bit laptop and i am trying to install tessetact-
ocr. I am haveing a great deal of difficulty following the
installation procedures on the web site. The directions are not really
written in layman's terms and am a bit lost. I installed the
tesseract-ocr-setup-3.01-1.exe which seemed to go smoothly. When I try
to open the tesseract program in Windows I just see an uninstall
option. now the the Read Me file says I also need the tar ball file
tesseract-x.xx.tar.gz and that it will unpack to the tesseract-x.xx
directory "Note that tesseract-x.xx.tar.gz unpacks to the tesseract-
x.xx directory" When I download the file and when I try to open the
file to have it unpack to the correct directory windows tells me it
cant open the file.

How do i get it to unpack to the correct directory?


Do I Need Leptonica too?

I tried to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable
Package (x86) also but it made no difference

If someone would walk me though the process via email and answer the
questons I might have in the process it would be greatly appreciated.


thanks

[Pavel Mazniker]

Hi,

 

yes of course you need leptonica to be "installed" before configure and install tesseract to use it in applications.

 

I have a similar problem to build tesseract r724 on windows:

 

 I checked out full  r724 from repository,

I get when running configure in ming+msys system terminal:

 "checking for pixCreate in -llept... no

  configure: leptonica library missing"

on windows, nevertheless I copied leptonica .dll and .lib files to Windows/System directory,

Can anybody help how to resolve this problem and configure and build library on Windows ?

Thanks.