Okay, my shell script problem "not finding makebox" was a line ending problem (CR+LF).
But how about TESSDATA_PREFIX ? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] Im Auftrag von Schmitz, Marco Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. September 2015 13:23 An: Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com>; cygwin@cygwin.com Betreff: AW: Tesseract 3.04 - Cygwin64 - Windows 8.1 - Can't open makebox Hi Marco, without setting TESSDATA_PREFIX (neither Windows environment variables nor .bash_profile) I get: $ tesseract --list-langs Error opening data file C:\DEV\tesseract\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata/eng.traineddata Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to the parent directory of your "tessdata" directory. Failed loading language 'eng' Tesseract couldn't load any languages! Could not initialize tesseract. This is my first problem, which I solved defining TESSDATA_PREFIX (in Windows environment). Now I get: $ tesseract --list-langs List of available languages (13): arbeitsunfaehigkeit deu deu_frak eng fra ita ita_old nld osd por spa spa_old vie Then I try this: $ tesseract arbeitsunfaehigkeit.hausarzt.exp0.jpg arbeitsunfaehigkeit batch.nochop makebox Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.04.00 with Leptonica Okay, but originally I wrote this issue because I tried to call it from a shell script. So, this is my box.sh: #!/usr/bin/env bash tesseract arbeitsunfaehigkeit.hausarzt.exp0.jpg arbeitsunfaehigkeit batch.nochop makebox and calling it brings up the original error: $ ./box.sh Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.04.00 with Leptonica read_params_file: Can't open makebox Best regards, Marco -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] Im Auftrag von Marco Atzeri Gesendet: Montag, 21. September 2015 16:15 An: cygwin@cygwin.com Betreff: Re: Tesseract 3.04 - Cygwin64 - Windows 8.1 - Can't open makebox On 21/09/2015 11:03, Schmitz, Marco wrote: > I am using Windows 8.1 and Cygwin64 in order to run Tesseract 3.04. > > Running the following command: > > tesseract arbeitsunfaehigkeit.hausarzt.exp0.jpg > arbeitsunfaehigkeit batch.nochop makebox > > results in the following output: > > Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.04.00 with Leptonica > read_params_file: Can't open makebox > > And this is after I fixed the output: > > Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.04.00 with Leptonica > Error opening data file > C:\DEV\tesseract\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata/eng.traineddata Are you defining TESSDATA_PREFIX ? Why ? > Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to the > parent directory of your "tessdata" directory. > Failed loading language 'eng' > Tesseract couldn't load any languages! > Could not initialize tesseract. > > Using the following line in .bash_profile: > > export TESSDATA_PREFIX="/cygdrive/c/DEV/cygwin64/usr/share/tessdata/" The default should be TESSDATA_PREFIX="/usr/share/tessdata/" Without defining TESSDATA_PREFIX, I have $ tesseract.exe --list-langs List of available languages (4): deu deu_frak eng osd and the language files are in : $ ls /usr/share/tessdata/ configs/ eng.cube.fold eng.cube.size osd.traineddata deu.traineddata eng.cube.lm eng.cube.word-freq pdf.ttf deu_frak.traineddata eng.cube.nn eng.tesseract_cube.nn tessconfigs/ eng.cube.bigrams eng.cube.params eng.traineddata training/ Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple