I have a problem with running tesseract-ocr engine on linux. I've downloaded RUS language data and put it to tessdata directory (/usr/local/share/tessdata). When I'm trying to run tesseract with command tesseract blob.jpg out -l rus , it displays an error:
Error opening data file /usr/local/share/tessdata/eng.traineddata
Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to the parent directory of your "tessdata" directory.
Failed loading language eng
Tesseract couldn't load any languages!
Could not initialize tesseract.
According to compiling guide, I used export TESSDATA_PREFIX='/usr/local/share/'
to point my tessdata directory.
Maybe I should edit any config files? Tesseract try to load 'eng' data files instead of 'rus'.
Screenshot: http://i.stack.imgur.com/I0Guc.png
Answer
You can grab eng.traineddata Github:
wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata
Check https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata for a full list of trained language data.
When you grab the file(s), move them to the /usr/local/share/tessdata folder. Warning: some Linux distributions (such as openSUSE and Ubuntu) may be expecting it in /usr/share/tessdata instead.
# If you got the data from Google, unzip it first!
gunzip eng.traineddata.gz
# Move the data
sudo mv -v eng.traineddata /usr/local/share/tessdata/