Tesseract: leptonica library with pdf support (>= 1.71) is missing

Created on 30 Sep 2016 · 8Comments · Source: tesseract-ocr/tesseract

I followed the steps of installation of tesseract-ocr. After autogen.sh , I tried ./configure but terminal is showing leptonica library with pdf support (>= 1.71) is missing and no further installation is happening.
I searched for this problem extensively. I installed leptonica-17.3 from source. Then I tried ./configure again. The problem persisted. I again searched. In one closed issue, there was suggestion for ./configure --with-extra-includes=/usr/local/include --with-extra-libaries=/usr/local/lib instead of ./configure. I didn't work.
The problem is still the same.
What to do?
Any suggestion is welcome.

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arvinds7

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Please use tesseract user forum for asking support.

zdenop on 30 Sep 2016

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I have the same bug. Since it is telling you that you have the wrong version, but that is not the real issue.

this is bug and not a "asking support".

Neppord on 9 Nov 2016

@canny07 i made it work by setting the library path diffierntly. It is probably a old version of leptonica that is "blocking the sight" for the config script .

Neppord on 9 Nov 2016

@Neppord Yeah It seems so. For my case, I found that the older version was the reason of trouble. So, I removed it and downloaded and installed the latest version from the source.
Thanks for answering :)

arvinds7 on 9 Nov 2016

First, it is recommended to uninstall an older Leptonica before you install new one.

Running sudo ldconfig after sudo make install in both Leptonica and Tesseract installation should prevent the issue you had.

Anyway, it's not a bug in Tesseract.

amitdo on 10 Nov 2016

Anyway, it's not a bug in Tesseract.

In some way it is. I had to fix my Tesseract configuration to get PDF support for the Windows version. Maybe I should have sent a PR earlier – I'll do it now.