getting up and running...

[asllearner]

1. I can't seem to get the program to work on os x 10.6.8. I know i have imagemagick, gs, and k2pdfopt installed and working. I have "python launcher" installed. I don't know how to see if I have PIL. (I installed Pillow instead of PIL)
2. When I run from terminal I get: File "/usr/local/bin/journal2ebook", line 69 self.configVars={line.split(':')[0].replace(' ',''):line.split(':')[1].lstrip().rstrip('\n') for line in f} #dictionary of configuration variables SyntaxError: invalid syntax

There seems to be a caret under the word "for"

I am only a beginner at linux, so I need somewhat explicit directions.

1. If I fail to get it to work, I wonder how i go about uninstalling it. Nonetheless, I look forward to being able to try it out.
2. Also, running tesseract I get the following: Error opening data file ...TessOCR-1.08.-5074127fdf195/TessOCR-1.08/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.

I do have a tessdata folder, /Applications/VietOCR3 App/tesseract-ocr/tessdata (But I havent been able to get vietocr3 to work. another story) How do I set the tessdata_prefix??

thx

[asllearner]

I commented out the offending line, and also changed the first few lines to account for PIL/Pillow: Beginning of file now reads:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# import ImageTk
#replaced with 
from PIL import ImageTk
import PIL.Image

I got the following errors. Out of my league. No idea what it means:

cd '/Users/me/Downloads/journal2ebook-master/journal2ebook/' && '/usr/bin/pythonw'  '/Users/me/Downloads/journal2ebook-master/journal2ebook/journal2ebook2.py'  && echo Exit status: $? && exit 1
2014-05-30 12:35:17.264 Python[58489:d07] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Satimage.osax/Contents/MacOS/Satimage:  dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Satimage.osax/Contents/MacOS/Satimage, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Satimage.osax/Contents/MacOS/Satimage: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
pythonw: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Satimage.osax" declares no loadable handlers.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/me/Downloads/journal2ebook-master/journal2ebook/journal2ebook2.py", line 479, in <module>
    myapp=Journal2ebook(root,filename)
  File "/Users/me/Downloads/journal2ebook-master/journal2ebook/journal2ebook2.py", line 96, in __init__
    self.setup()
  File "/Users/me/Downloads/journal2ebook-master/journal2ebook/journal2ebook2.py", line 104, in setup
    self.prepImage()
  File "/Users/me/Downloads/journal2ebook-master/journal2ebook/journal2ebook2.py", line 260, in prepImage
    self.img = PIL.Image.open(imFile)
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/PIL/Image.py", line 2099, in open
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/PIL/Image.py", line 343, in preinit
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py", line 35, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

I fixed the problem with Tesseract. I had deleted the folder by mistake.

[adasilva]

Sorry - I didn't see this sooner. I'm not a mac user, but I'll try to help if I can and if you are still having the issue (and interested). Which version of python are you using?

[adasilva]

Changed label to wontfix because this has not been reproduced.

[monkeypuzzler]

I don't know if OP is returning, but I thought I'd let others know that using python 2.6 reproduces error.

[adasilva]

@monkeypuzzler Thanks for letting me know. For now I'll put python 2.7 as a requirement, but the fix might not be too difficult. Let me know if you get any more information or if you are able to fix it yourself.

[monkeypuzzler]

Thanks for providing the motivation to create my first fork and pull request! It turned out to be an easy fix - python 2.6 doesn't support dictionary comprehensions. I changed the dictionary comprehension into a list comprehension which produced a list of (key,value)-tuples, and fed that list into dict() to produce the required dictionary.

[adasilva]

now should work with python 2.6 (pull request #31)

[adasilva]

Thanks @monkeypuzzler for figuring this out, and congrats on your first pull request! I agree that this should not break any other versions of python.