casimo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to get tesseract working on an XP machine with ActiveState.

There is a compiled executable but no installer.

I'm a little lost on how to get it working with Image::OCR::Tesseract.

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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
    ?
      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);
      Invalid Parameter - -compress 1024 at C:/Perl/site/lib/Image/OCR/Tesseract.pm line 77.