Working on memory leaks, just faced that valgrind memcheck see serious leak on TessBaseAPI initialization call
api4->Init is there any way to fix this? UPDATE: if valgrind memcheck api sample from official Tesseract site API examples | tessdoc (tesseract-ocr.github.io) <https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/APIExample.html> it gives same warning This issue 100% was already discussed :) Please advise if you have any solution #include <tesseract/baseapi.h> #include <leptonica/allheaders.h> int main() { char *outText; tesseract::TessBaseAPI *api = new tesseract::TessBaseAPI(); // Initialize tesseract-ocr with English, without specifying tessdata path if (api->Init(NULL, "eng")) { fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize tesseract.\n"); exit(1); } // Open input image with leptonica library Pix *image = pixRead("/usr/src/tesseract/testing/phototest.tif"); api->SetImage(image); // Get OCR result outText = api->GetUTF8Text(); printf("OCR output:\n%s", outText); // Destroy used object and release memory api->End(); delete api; delete [] outText; pixDestroy(&image); return 0; } void Name::test(){ tesseract::TessBaseAPI *api4 = new tesseract::TessBaseAPI(); api4->Init("/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/", "eng"); } ==15652== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==15652== at 0xA49B60D: nextOnPixelInRaster (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblept.so.5.0.4) ==15652== by 0xA49C85D: pixConnCompBB (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblept.so.5.0.4) ==15652== by 0xA450E80: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblept.so.5.0.4) ==15652== by 0xA451494: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblept.so.5.0.4) ==15652== by 0xA451EFA: bmfCreate (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblept.so.5.0.4) ==15652== by 0x57965BF: tesseract::Tesseract::Tesseract() (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtesseract.so.4.0.1) ==15652== by 0x574E396: tesseract::TessBaseAPI::Init(char const*, int, char const*, tesseract::OcrEngineMode, char**, int, GenericVector<STRING> const*, GenericVector<STRING> const*, bool, bool (*)(STRING const&, GenericVector<char>*)) (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtesseract.so.4.0.1) ==15652== by 0x574E7C9: tesseract::TessBaseAPI::Init(char const*, char const*, tesseract::OcrEngineMode, char**, int, GenericVector<STRING> const*, GenericVector<STRING> const*, bool) (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtesseract.so.4.0.1) ==15652== by 0x14B528: tesseract::TessBaseAPI::Init(char const*, char const*) (baseapi.h:224) ==15652== by 0x14B225: Name::test() (Name.cpp:64) ==15652== by 0x184A70: main (main.cpp:69) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/372d4d82-2e22-4ed5-9971-a6e9b1659c58n%40googlegroups.com.