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Following notes are based on the instructions for installing OCRopus 3.0. The following notes were generated in the following environment:

  • OCRopus 0.3

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  • iulib 0.3
  • Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

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Before you Begin

Make sure your Ubuntu installation has the following components installed (not installed by default):

  • g++

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  • scons

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  • svn

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Note

If you have problems downloading any of the packages or libraries required, try changing the server which apt-get or Synaptic use. In our experience, mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu was good.

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Installing iulib

  • Download iulib 0.3 package from iulib's google code page. http://code.google.com/p/iulib/
  • Get any missing libraries, run: sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev
  • First run sudo scons install. This will help avoid an error in the next step. Make sure to have scons installed.
  • Then run sudo make install

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