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If you have tesseract 4.0x installation in your system, please remove it
before new build.

You need Leptonica 1.74.2 (minimum) for Tesseract 4.0x.

Known dependencies for training tools (excluding leptonica):
* compiler with c++11 support
* autoconf-archive
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$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ldconfig
$ make training
$ sudo make training-install

You need to install at least English language and OSD data files to TESSDATA_PREFIX
directory. You can retrieve single file with tools like [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/), [curl](https://curl.haxx.se/), [GithubDownloader](https://github.com/intezer/GithubDownloader) or browser.
You need to install at least English language and OSD traineddata files to
TESSDATA_PREFIX directory.

You can retrieve single file with tools like [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/), [curl](https://curl.haxx.se/), [GithubDownloader](https://github.com/intezer/GithubDownloader) or browser.

All language data files can be retrieved from git repository (useful only for packagers!):
All language data files can be retrieved from git repository (useful only for packagers!).
(Repository is huge - more that 1.2 GB. You do NOT need to download traineddata files for
all languages).

$ git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata.git tesseract-ocr.tessdata

(Repository is huge - more that 1.2 GB. You do not need to download
all languages).

You need an Internet connection to compile ScrollView.jar because the build will automatically download piccolo2d-core-3.0.jar
and [piccolo2d-extras-3.0.jar](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g%3A%22org.piccolo2d%22) and place them to tesseract/java.
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