Tesseract 2.03 don't build with CygWin or VS2005 under Windows XP

[ceciop]

I'm unable to build Tesseract 2.03 with Windows XP
I also tried to build the project with MSVS 2005 but in this case the
compilation fails ...
Someone was able to build the exeutables on Windows XP - Vista?
How have you done?
What are your secrets?

A. Gasparini

[74yrs old]

Attached exe files of tesseract generated in XP and also copy of tessdata containing eng.datafiles.  Please rename "tesseract-files.ZIP OK" as "tesseract-files.ZIP" (delete "OK")
-Cheers

[Ed Brown]

I am also having problems gettin Tesseract to work on Windows.

I downloaded the binaries, but when I execute "tesseract.exe image.tif
output.txt -l eng", I get nothing. No output, no errors, nothing. Just
another command prompt.

So, I downloaded the latest source, opened the solution in VS2005, and
performed a build. It compiled everything without errors. I ran the
resulting tesseract.exe as before, and get the same results - no
output, no errors.

SO, I downloaded the tesseract-files.ZIP posted by 74yrs_old, unzipped
to a folder, and tried running the same command. Get the same results
(or lack thereof).

I have the image file and the tessdata subfolder located in the same
folder as the tesseract.exe file. What am I missing to get the program
to work?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

On Aug 12, 1:05 am, "74yrs old" <withblessi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Attached exe files of tesseract generated in XP and also copy of tessdata
> containing eng.datafiles.  Please rename "tesseract-files.ZIP OK" as
> "tesseract-files.ZIP" (delete "OK")
> -Cheers
>

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:40 AM, ceciop <logicalobje...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm unable to build Tesseract 2.03 with Windows XP
> > I also tried to build the project with MSVS 2005 but in this case the
> > compilation fails ...
> > Someone was able to build the exeutables on Windows XP - Vista?
> > How have you done?
> > What are your secrets?
>
> > A. Gasparini
>
>
>

>  tesseract--files.ZIP OK
> 1975KViewDownload

[Ray Smith]

Check tesseract.log and look for output.txt.txt, which is where the output should be. (Yes double .txt as you gave one on the command line.)
Ray.

[Ed Brown]

Ahh... "Illegal image format:Compression"

It is a G4 TIFF and Tesseract only supports G3 "out-of-the-box".

I assume I'll need to add in libtiff support as described in the
ReadMe? I'll give that a try.

Thanks for your help!

[74yrs old]

If you are using MSwindows, you can use Irfanview 4.10 which is free download- for de-compression. It works without any problem.