Tesseract auto build tool

tesseract-ocr-autobuild.sh

#!/bin/sh
#This script is just for the python tesseract-ocr wrapper

#First install all pre-requisits
sudo apt-get install g++ # or clang++ (presumably)
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool
sudo apt-get install autoconf-archive
sudo apt-get install pkg-config
sudo apt-get install libpng-dev
sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev
sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

#Install Leptonica
wget http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.75.3.tar.gz
tar -xvzf leptonica-1.75.3.tar.gz
cd leptonica-1.75.3
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd -
#Clone Tesseract from Git
#First make sure git is installed
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git tesseract-ocr

#Compile Tesseract
 cd tesseract-ocr
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
    sudo ldconfig


#get wget
sudo apt-get install wget
mkdir lang
cd lang/

#Get English supported language
wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/4.00/eng.traineddata
cd -
#Get Tesseract Java wrapper
git clone https://github.com/nguyenq/tess4j.git
echo "You're good to go!"
echo "Netbeans -> Find and add all the required JAR files, including jai_imageio.jar, jna.jar, commons-io-2.4.jar, lept4j.jar, and tess4j.jar."