Hello!
I hear that in tesseract project "There is no windows installer!
(Still looking for volunteers to create one.) "
See
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ReadMe
I prepared test version of installed for tesseract 3.0 on windows.
My installed is based on NSIS (
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page)
Step by step how to prepare installer from script:
1. download tesseract archive for windows
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-3.00.win32.zip
2. place NSIS script (it is below) to unpacked contant
3. install NSIS
4. compile NSIS script and get executable installer
I hope it help to tesseract project.
!define VERSION 3.0
!define PRODUCT_NAME "tesseract"
!define PRODUCT_VERSION "${VERSION}"
!define PRODUCT_PUBLISHER ""
!define PRODUCT_WEB_SITE "
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr"
;!define PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY "Software/Microsoft"
;!define PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY "Software/Microsoft"
;!define PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY "Software/Microsoft"
SetCompressor lzma
Name "Tesseract-OCR ${VERSION}"
Caption "Tesseract-OCR ${VERSION}"
;Icon "icon_1.ico"
;UninstallIcon "install_icon.ico"
BrandingText /TRIMCENTER " (c) 2010 tesseract "
InstallDir "$PROGRAMFILES\Tesseract-OCR"
InstallDirRegKey HKCU "Software\tesseract-ocr" ""
ShowInstDetails show
XPStyle on
SpaceTexts
CRCCheck on
InstProgressFlags smooth colored
;Name of program and file
!ifdef VERSION
OutFile tesseract-ocr-setup-${VERSION}.exe
!else
OutFile tesseract-ocr-setup.exe
!endif
Function .onInit
MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONQUESTION "Do you want to install
tesseract-ocr?" \
/SD IDYES IDNO no IDYES yes
no:
SetSilent silent
Goto done
yes:
SetSilent normal
;InitPluginsDir
;File /oname=$PLUGINSDIR\splash.bmp "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Graphics
\Header\nsis.bmp"
;File /oname=$PLUGINSDIR\splash.bmp "new.bmp"
;advsplash::show 1000 600 400 -1 $PLUGINSDIR\splash
;Pop $0 ; $0 has '1' if the user closed the splash screen
early,
; '0' if everything closed normal, and '-1' if
some error occured.
;IfFileExists $INSTDIR\loadmain.exe PathGood
done:
FunctionEnd
!include "MUI.nsh"
;MUI Settings
!define MUI_ABORTWARNING
;!define MUI_ICON "install_icon.ico"
;!define MUI_UNICON "uninstall_icon.ico"
;Welcome page
!define MUI_HEADERIMAGE
;
;!define MUI_HEADERIMAGE_BITMAP "452.bmp"
;!define MUI_HEADERIMAGE_UNBITMAP "452.bmp"
!define MUI_HEADERIMAGE_BITMAP_NOSTRETCH
;;!define MUI_HEADERIMAGE_RIGHT
;!define MUI_WELCOMEFINISHPAGE_BITMAP "logo.bmp"
!define MUI_WELCOMEPAGE_TITLE_3LINES
!define MUI_COMPONENTSPAGE_SMALLDESC
;--------------------------------
;Pages
;License page
!define MUI_LICENSEPAGE_CHECKBOX
;!define MUI_LICENSEPAGE_TEXT "$(License)"
;!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE "${MUI_LICENSEPAGE_TEXT}"
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE "doc/COPYING"
!ifdef VERSION
Page custom PageReinstall PageLeaveReinstall
!endif
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_COMPONENTS
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK "
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-
ocr/"
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK_LOCATION "
http://code.google.com/p/
tesseract-ocr/"
;!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_RUN "$INSTDIR\tesseract.exe"
;!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_NOREBOOTSUPPORT
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_SHOWREADME "$INSTDIR\doc\README"
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH
!insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_CONFIRM
!insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_INSTFILES
;!insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_FINISH
;--------------------------------
;Languages
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Indonesian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Irish"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Italian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Japanese"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Korean"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Kurdish"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Latvian""
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Lithuanian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Luxembourgish"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Macedonian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Malay"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Mongolian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Norwegian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "NorwegianNynorsk"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Polish"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Portuguese"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "PortugueseBR"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Romanian"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Russian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Serbian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "SerbianLatin"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "SimpChinese"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Slovak"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Slovenian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Spanish"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "SpanishInternational"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Swedish"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Thai"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "TradChinese"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Turkish"
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Ukrainian"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Uzbek"
;!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "Welsh"
;--------------------------------
;Installer Sections
ShowInstDetails show
InstProgressFlags smooth colored
Section "Tesseract-OCR" SecDummy
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"
;files inclided in distribution
File dlltest.exe
File leptonlib.dll
File tessdll.dll
File tessdll.lib
File tesseract.exe
CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\tessdata"
CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\tessdata\configs"
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\tessdata\configs"
File tessdata\configs\ambigs.train
File tessdata\configs\api_config
File tessdata\configs\box.train
File tessdata\configs\box.train.stderr
File tessdata\configs\digits
File tessdata\configs\inter
File tessdata\configs\kannada
File tessdata\configs\logfile
File tessdata\configs\makebox
File tessdata\configs\unlv
CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\tessdata\tessconfigs"
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\tessdata\tessconfigs"
File tessdata\tessconfigs\batch
File tessdata\tessconfigs\batch.nochop
File tessdata\tessconfigs\matdemo
File tessdata\tessconfigs\msdemo
File tessdata\tessconfigs\nobatch
File tessdata\tessconfigs\segdemo
CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\training"
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\training"
File training\cntraining.exe
File training\combine_tessdata.exe
File training\mftraining.exe
File training\unicharset_extractor.exe
File training\wordlist2dawg.exe
CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\doc"
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\doc"
File doc\AUTHORS
File doc\COPYING
File doc\eurotext.tif
File doc\phototest.tif
File doc\README
File doc\ReleaseNotes
;Store installation folder
WriteRegStr HKCU "Software\tesseract-ocr" "" $INSTDIR
WriteRegStr HKCU "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
"tesseract-ocr" "C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
; Download language files
StrCpy $2 "$INSTDIR\$1"
StrCpy $1 "tesseract-2.00.deu.tar.gz"
;NSISdl::download "
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/
tesseract-2.00.deu.tar.gz" $INSTDIR
NSISdl::download "
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/$1" $2
StrCpy $1 "tesseract-2.00.eng.tar.gz"
NSISdl::download "
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/$1" $2
StrCpy $1 "tesseract-2.00.fra.tar.gz"
NSISdl::download "
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/$1" $2
StrCpy $1 "tesseract-2.00.ita.tar.gz"
NSISdl::download "
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/$1" $2
StrCpy $1 "tesseract-2.00.nld.tar.gz"
NSISdl::download "
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/$1" $2
StrCpy $1 "tesseract-2.01.por.tar.gz"
NSISdl::download "
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/$1" $2
StrCpy $1 "tesseract-2.00.spa.tar.gz"
NSISdl::download "
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/$1" $2
;Quit
;Create uninstaller
WriteUninstaller "$INSTDIR\Uninstall.exe"
;ExecShell "open" "
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/"
;ExecShell "open" '"$INSTDIR"'
;BringToFront
SectionEnd
;Section "Help" SecHelp
;CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\Help"
;SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\Help"
;File "Ïîìîùü.chm"
;SectionEnd
;Section "Languages support" SecLanguage
;SectionEnd
Section "Shortcuts creation" SecCS
CreateDirectory "$SMPROGRAMS\Tesseract-OCR"
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract-ocr.lnk"
"$INSTDIR\tesseract.exe" "" "$INSTDIR\tesseract.exe" 0
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\Tesseract-OCR\Uninstall.lnk" "$INSTDIR
\uninstall.exe" "" "$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe" 0
;CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\Tesseract-OCR.lnk" "$INSTDIR
\tesseract.exe" "" "$INSTDIR\tesseract.exe" 0
;CreateShortCut "$QUICKLAUNCH\.lnk" "$INSTDIR\tesseract.exe" ""
"$INSTDIR\tesseract.exe" 0
SectionEnd
;--------------------------------
;Descriptions
;Language strings
LangString DESC_SecDummy ${LANG_RUSSIAN} "Installation files."
;LangString DESC_SecHelp ${LANG_RUSSIAN} "Help information."
LangString DESC_SecCS ${LANG_RUSSIAN} "Add shortcuts to Start menu."
;Assign language strings to sections
!insertmacro MUI_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTION_BEGIN
!insertmacro MUI_DESCRIPTION_TEXT ${SecDummy} $(DESC_SecDummy)
;!insertmacro MUI_DESCRIPTION_TEXT ${SecHelp} $(DESC_SecHelp)
!insertmacro MUI_DESCRIPTION_TEXT ${SecCS} $(DESC_SecCS)
!insertmacro MUI_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTION_END
;--------------------------------
;Uninstaller Section
Section "Uninstall"
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_SHOWREADME
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_SHOWREADME_TEXT "Create desktop shortcut"
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_SHOWREADME_FUNCTION CreateDeskShortcut
DeleteRegKey HKCU "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
\tesseract-ocr"
DeleteRegKey /ifempty HKCU "Software\tesseract-ocr"
Delete "$INSTDIR\*.*"
Delete "$SMPROGRAMS\Tesseract-OCR\*.*"
Delete "$INSTDIR\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata\*.*"
Delete "$INSTDIR\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata\configs\*.*"
Delete "$INSTDIR\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata\tessconfigs\*.*"
Delete "$INSTDIR\Tesseract-OCR\training\*.*"
Delete "$INSTDIR\Tesseract-OCR\doc\*.*"
RMDir "$INSTDIR\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata"
RMDir "$INSTDIR\Tesseract-OCR"
;Delete "$DESKTOP\Tesseract-OCR.lnk"
;Delete "$QUICKLAUNCH\Tesseract-OCR.lnk"
RMDir "$INSTDIR"
RMDir "$SMPROGRAMS\Tesseract-OCR"
SectionEnd
Function PageReinstall
FunctionEnd
Function PageLeaveReinstall
FunctionEnd