Hello all , What is the difference between sudo apt-get install tesseract and installing from source . Let me explain the context so that it could give a clear picture .
I wanted to work with Tesseract and build better Training Data for Tamil language as well as see if any modifications could be done to engine also to make it more responsive for Tamil . 1.Hence installed Tesseract via sudo apt-get install tesseract . 2.I could see that the files and folders relating to tessdata were created in /usr/share/tesseract-ocr 3.And installed all the necessary packages as mentioned here https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/Compiling 4.Now the command tesseract is working fine . 5.I wanted to see the debugging of the system , hence posted a question here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tesseract-ocr/BxZvoUlxjOc 6.I was asked to perform the make file operations in Java folder . 7.Since within the /usr/share I could not find java folder , I created a folder and tried to do the make .But it did not work out . 8.As per zdenop reply in the above and Arun Pandian's reply to an earlier mail , I am trying to configure it from the source and hence created a clone using git clone https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ 9.Here I could find the /java folder . 10.Trying to find answer via search engine leads me here http://askubuntu.com/questions/335684/installation-difference-between-from-source-and-apt-get But I am not satisfied with the answer My questions are 1.What is the difference between package installation and installing from source ? 2.Where can I find the files if I am doing a package installation ? 3.Am I doing the entire process wrong ? -Sibi _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
