text2image & 'Bash on Windows'

[amitdo]

@Shreeshrii,

Hi ! Does text2image works on 'Bash on Windows'?

[Shreeshrii]

Yes, I use it on windows 10. Initially I used directly in 'Bash on Windows'. Now I use it via mobaxterm.

Basically it provides lubuntu 14.04 environment.

[Shreeshrii]

I was checking just now to see whether the .exe files from artifacts would work under 'git bash' which is more lightweight and could run the tesstrain.sh script with the windows exe files.

[Shreeshrii]

https://git-for-windows.github.io/

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html

[amitdo]

Thanks. Good to know.

[Shreeshrii]

Just to clarify, it is the 'ubuntu' version of text2image that works well under bash on windows.

The windows version of text2image eg. provided by Stefan works on windows 'cmd' but I have had trouble completing the training process with the generated files. Also, windows cannot directly run the bash scripts.

I read about git bash today and wanted to try using the tesstrain.sh bash scripts directly in it with the latest .exe files from appyeyor artifacts, Don't know yet whether the training bash scripts will work.

[amitdo]

Does the bash script works on 'Bash on Windows'?

[Shreeshrii]

yes, bash script works on 'Bash on Windows'.

Bash on Windows provides developers with a familiar Bash shell and Linux environment in which you can run most Linux command-line tools, directly on Windows, UNMODIFIED, without needing an entire Linux virtual machine!

[amitdo]

Yes, I know that bash scripts should work on WSL, but I wanted to know if you tested tesstrain.sh on WSL.

[Shreeshrii]

Yes, WSL is what I have been using for last few months for all the tests for training. So, yes tesstrain.sh works on it.