File not found - *.gt.txt

[jimlaloi]

I'm new to tesstrain, following the readme to get started. I'm getting an error that doesn't make any sense to me. I'm on Windows 10. Here's what I've done:

• Installed Tesseract (I have version 5.3.3.20231005) and added it to PATH
• Installed Git SCM (linked in the readme) and added C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin to PATH
• Installed Windows Package Manager (linked in the readme) ran winget install GnuWin32.Make and winget install wget
• When trying to run Make after this, it said it was outdated, so I installed a newer version with choco install make. After this Make appeared to be working. I have Make version 4.4.1.
• Installed Bc and dc calculator and unzipped bc.exe to my PATH.
• I cloned the tesstrain repository, created a subdirectory data/foo-ground-truth, and unzipped the contents of ocrd-testset.zip into it.
• I ran make tesseract-langdata, which successfully downloaded a bunch of unicharset files into data/langdata

Now for the error. When I try to run make training, I get the following error:

File not found - *.gt.txt
File not found - *.gt.txt
    You are using make version: 4.4.1
Makefile:224: *** found no data/foo-ground-truth/*.gt.txt for data/foo/all-gt.  Stop.

I have confirmed that I do indeed have a whole bunch of .gt.txt files in data/foo-ground-truth, from the unzipped ocrd-testset.zip. I've hit a wall on my troubleshooting. What might be causing it to not find these files?

[stweil]

find in a Windows command line is not the same as the POSIX find, for example in a Linux shell. Training won't work in a Windows command line. I suggest to use WSL on Windows.

[zdenop]

WSL is a good suggestion, but POSIX find is part of the git installation - make sure that the git path(s) are at the beginning of PATH env variable.

[jimlaloi]

@zdenop Thanks you pointed me in the right direction. I double-checked my PATH env variable order from the command line (path), and the git path was halfway down. I wasn't sure why, because I had put it at the top of my PATH env variable in the Adv System Settings dialog. But then I realized I had put it in my User PATH, which is listed after all the paths in the System PATH env variable. Once I added my git path to the System PATH (at the top), everything started working.