ocrodjvu does not detect installed tesseract

[Árpád Lukács]

Ocrodjvu does not detect if tesseract is installed. Running
                  ocrodjvu --list-engines
does not list tesseract as an installed OCR engine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Stender (ds2011)]

Doesn't this only refers to Ocrodjvu 0.7.7-1? Cf. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667548

Greetings,
Daniel Stender

[julia (julia-f)]

I have the same problem with ocrodjvu 0.7.9-1.1.

ocrodjvu --list-engines results in nothing even though tesseract-ocr (3.03.02-3) is installed from the repositories. This is on ubuntu 14.04.1.

Is there any workaround for this?

[Árpád Lukács (lukacs-arpad)]

I do not know about any workarounds, I have installed 0.7.12, by rebuilding the package.
Instructions:
1. download ubuntu source package
2. throw away everything, but the *.changes and *.dsc files and the debian directory.
Rename them to the actual version downloaded from the developer
(0.7.12 in my case), edit ocrodjvu_0.7.12-1ubuntu1.dsc to have the new version number.
3. find the rules file in the debian directory, edit it to remove tests (we do not have ocropus on ubuntu)
4. download new source & extract it
5. copy the debian directory under ocrodjvu-0.7.12
6. cd ocrodjvu-0.7.12
7. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc

ocrodjvu_0.7.12-1ubuntu1_all.deb will be created. You can install that. You can also download my version from
http://szofi.elte.hu/~rpsoft/ocrodjvu_0.7.12-1ubuntu1_all.deb
but it is not signed, you cannot check if it is reliable.

[Árpád Lukács (lukacs-arpad)]

Sorry, for some reason, the above only works on Ubuntu 12.04. On 14.04, I had to rebuild the package using version 0.7.18.
This time I did not modify anything, just downloaded the sources from http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/ocrodjvu
(the package for ubuntu utopic) and rebuilt them.
The result is here: http://szofi.elte.hu/~rpsoft/ocrodjvu_0.7.18-1_all.deb