apt-get update apt-get install build-essential checkinstall mkdir ~/tesseract cd ~/tesseract wget http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.69.tar.gz tar xf leptonica-1.69.tar.gz && rm -rf leptonica-1.69.tar.gz cd leptonica-1.69 ./configure make && checkinstall --pkgname=libleptonica --pkgversion="1.69" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default cd ~/tesseract wget https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz tar xf tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz && rm -rf tesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gz cd tesseract-ocr ./autogen.sh ./configure make && checkinstall --pkgname=tesseract-ocr --pkgversion="3.02.02" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default && ldconfig mkdir ~/tesseract/langs cd ~/tesseract/langs wget https://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz echo "Extracting language files" for i in *.tar.gz; do echo -e "\nworking on $i\n"; tar xvzf $i ; done cp tesseract-ocr/tessdata/* /usr/local/share/tessdata/ echo -e "\ntesseract output:" tesseract --version && tesseract --list-langs && cd ~ && rm -rf ~/tesseract