tessaract ocr no longer available in gscan2pdf

[Tim Hamilton]

After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 Raring with gscan2pdf 1.0.4, tessaract ocr engine is no longer available as an option under tools | ocr | ocr engine.

This is similar to an upstream bug filed against Debian and marked as resolved for gscan2pdf 1.0.2-1.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665871

As with the upstream bug tessaract is installed on the machine & making a manual change to .gscan2pdf makes no difference as gscan2pdf continues to use gocr.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gscan2pdf 1.0.4-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 30 15:26:30 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-20 (68 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64+mac (20121017.3)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gscan2pdf
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-27 (2 days ago)

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe (jeffreyratcliffe)]

This was fixed in v1.1.2. Please try v1.1.3 from the PPA.

[Tim Hamilton (pseudomorph)]

I can confirm this is indeed resolved v1.1.3 from the PPA. Thanks.

[floid (jkanowitz)]

As a headsup for others, 1.1.3 from PPA solves this but seems to have some work-in-progress quirks re: using scanning backends other than libsane-perl.

In plain English this means you regain OCR but may lose access to some convenient page size definitions etc. if, say, scanimage worked more seamlessly with your scanner.

[If this is a surprise, do let me know and I'll file a real bug.]

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe (jeffreyratcliffe)]

I *am* surprised to hear about the problems with page size definitions. Please elaborate, including a log file.

[floid (jkanowitz)]

Sorry I missed responding to the request for more info. The aside about page definitions seems to have been long-since cured in the 1.1.3 in the Ubuntu 13.10 repos at least. Using libsane-perl, no less.