Tesseract OCR package is missing traning commands

[Darryl Hamilton]

Ubuntu Version:
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

Package: tesseract-ocr:
  Installed: 3.03.02-3
  Candidate: 3.03.02-3
  Version table:
 *** 3.03.02-3 0
        500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The package is missing a number of programs used to train the recognition engine, but the man pages for these are in the archive.

The upstream Debian version has fixed this - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742029

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: tesseract-ocr 3.03.02-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 20 12:35:16 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-02 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326)
SourcePackage: tesseract
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[David Agudo (dagudoj)]

Yes, they are missing in tesseract-ocr 3.03.02-3, although they were present in Ubuntu 12.04.

It is not possible to train tesseract without those tools.

[David Agudo (dagudoj)]

I have found several problems...

1) The training tools are not built by default because the training/ directory is not included in SUBDIRS

2) make training fails because there are some .o files remaining into the training/ directory that should not be into the source tgz. To make things worse, they are not deleted with make clean. This is explained here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tesseract-dev/ARKOSV3zpWo

I propose patching the main Makefile.am to solve these issues.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "make_clean.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Jeff Breidenbach (jeff-jab)]

This problem was resolved in Ubuntu 14.10 and later. Sorry for the glitch, totally my fault.