INSTALL

$Revision: 1.6 $

Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org

Chances are this package is NOT going to install properly through CPAN. There are some dependencies that are not perl things.

Change into the directory holding this file.

perl Makefile.PL

If you see any missing modules like File::Which

cpan File::Which

After that

make test

This should take a minute or more.

If it fails, you may be missing non perl prerequisites...

1) INSTALLING PREREQUISITES

DEPENDENCIES

ImageMagick convert
xpdf pdfimages
PDF::GetImages
PDF::Burst
CAM::PDF
PDF::API2

There are a few dependencies you will need to meet. Things that are not necessarily perl. You must install tesseract, and..
Here's what you should have:

t1lib
freetype
freetype-devel
libpaper
libpaper-devel
libpng
xpdf
ghostscript
openmotif
openmotif-devel
freetype2

Changes are you have most of these.

Misc Notes:

You should also test out pdfimages (from xpdf) This utility extracts images from a pdf

have to make sure if you build xpdf, that you use ./configure --with-freetype2-includes=/path/to/freetyp2 dir

INSTALLING TESSERACT

You may be able to simply install the SVN version of Tesseract by using:

svn checkout http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ tesseract-ocr ./runautoconf
mkdir build-directory
cd build-directory
../configure
make
make install

for more see google project on ocr, they use tesseract

2) INSTALLING

Back in the directory holding the package (and this file).

        perl Makefile.PL
        make test

It should work. Now you install.

make install

There.

Enjoy!

Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org