Including Tess4J to a Java project as library in Eclipse
android, java, ocr, tesseract
Solution
Follow the steps described in the following link to get Tess4J to run in Eclipse:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tess4j/forums/forum/1202294/topic/4506433
I'm not sure the library would run on Android because it seems JNA support on the platform is not there yet.
If you want a .NET wrapper for Tesseract 3.01, take a look at https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract-ocr-dotnet.
Problem
I have an so far empty and clean Eclipse Java project. What do I have to do to use `Tess4J` as library for my web service that I want to develop? Is it even possible to use it as library for an Android project? (would be shortcutting a lot) There is an issue regarding `.tif` with android that I came across. Tess4J is a wrapper for native code, because tesseract-ocr is written in C/C++. That I've got so far. But how to include this wrapper into my project? I've googled a lot until I have decided to drop `tesseract.Net`, beacuse this project is badly maintained/documented and would force me to C# (which would be okay), but I didn't manage to get it to work, so I had to default to C/C++ (which is not okay) ;) I'm kind of lost right now, so any help is welcome. regards. Edit: followed the steps mentioned here (answer from nguyenq) 1: new Eclipse workspace 2: created a new dir called `lib` 3: copied `\Tess4J\dist\tess4j.jar`, `\Tess4J\lib\jna.jar` and `\Tess4J\lib\jai_imageio.jar` into `lib` (2) 4: created a new Java project in Eclipse 5: in project properties (4) I added the .jars from (3) to Java build path as external jars under libraries 6: I copied the dir `\tessdata` and `libtesseract302.dll` into the project root dir `\workspace\project\` 7: I created a new class `Main` and instantiated a `Tesseract1 tesseract = new Tesseract1();` for testing 8: I run the application but an Exception was thrown: `Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load library 'libtesseract302' Module not found` Edit2: 7.1: I created a new class `Main` and instantiated a `Tesseract tesseract = new Tesseract.getInstance();` for testing (source: here) 8.1: looked okay so far, but no logic implemented, just tried to build it. Edit3: 9: nope, doesn't work. Still UnsatisfiedLinkError. Could it may be an issue regarding 32-bit vs. 64-bit? I'am working on Win7 64bit.