Cannot install english language on Ubuntu 20.04

danpla / dpscreenocr

Program to recognize text on screen

https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/

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Cannot install english language on Ubuntu 20.04 #22

Closed sanjarcode closed 1 year ago

sanjarcode commented 1 year ago

After installation using the PPA, I installed tesseract-ocr-eng, but it wasn't recognized. So I reinstalled the app. Still does not recognize language.

This is very bad UX, and no examples for English packages are given in the manual.

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04

danpla commented 1 year ago

Do you have the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable set (does echo $TESSDATA_PREFIX print something)?

danpla commented 1 year ago

You can also check whether the command-line tesseract tool works correctly.

danpla commented 1 year ago

I was unable to reproduce the issue. I'm closing it due to lack of feedback; feel free to reopen it if you have anything to add.