Gosseract Windows Compatibility

[DanMcgraw]

Summary

• Through many hours of attempting, have been unable to successfully use this library on windows

Reproducibility

• Simply, trying to run this on windows

Reproducibility Frequency

• 95% (100% if no-one has yet to get this to run on windows without docker)

1. install Tesseract-OCR
2. google why it will not work, header file reference errors
3. use vcpkg to get leptonica
4. ??? try to run
5. get errors for header file reference
6. google problem, find otiai10 comment on an issue a while ago about setting the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" environment variable, ignore that, and set the CPATH variable instead
7. point CPATH environment variable to header files for tesseract, in program files, and leptonica, in vcpkg
8. recieve the error for "mingw64\x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin\ld.exe", saying could not find the libraries
9. set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable
10. still receive the error
11. scratch head
12. wonder why there is no support for windows or instruction on how to install correctly
13. shrug

Environment

Windows 10 pro operating system 64 bit

go 1.18

tesseract latest v5
leptonica 1.86