Installing tesseract on XP

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Re: Installing tesseract on XP by Anonymous Monk on Jun 25, 2009 at 03:24 UTC
I'm a little lost on how to get it working with Image::OCR::Tesseract. What happened when you ran `perl Makefile.PL make test` [download] ?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Installing tesseract on XP by casimo (Sexton) on Jun 25, 2009 at 05:28 UTC
I actually installed it using ppm. when I run this I get: `use Image::OCR::Tesseract 'get_ocr'; my $image = './hi.jpg'; my $text = get_ocr($image);` [download] Invalid Parameter - -compress 1024 at C:/Perl/site/lib/Image/OCR/Tesseract.pm line 77.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Installing tesseract on XP by Anonymous Monk on Jun 25, 2009 at 06:33 UTC
Go ahead and run the test suite, you'll see much diagnostic info http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LEOCHARRE/Image-OCR-Tesseract-1.20/t/02_Image_OCR_Tesseract.t	[reply]
Re^4: Installing tesseract on XP by casimo (Sexton) on Jun 25, 2009 at 06:56 UTC
Re^5: Installing tesseract on XP by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 25, 2009 at 09:28 UTC
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