In Ubuntu 10.10 maverick meerkat tesseract-eng package is correctly installed installing tesseract so this bug is FIXED.
@Kat Amsterdam : I think that your problem is a different one and not related to this bug. Howewer try to see if in the directory reported by your problem there is the right file. cd /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/ ls -al In my case launching tesseract file.tif file.txt -l it give me same error So I've checked if it.unicharset was present in /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/ folder and I've found that this file is named ita.unicharset. Launching tesseract file.tif file.txt -l ita works great :) ** Changed in: tesseract (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224264 Title: Installing tesseract-ocr should also install tesseract-ocr-eng -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs