Visual Studio 2008 Developer Notes for Tesseract-OCR

date:February 23, 2012

• Overview
• Setting up Tesseract-OCR
  • Initial “Build” directory setup
  • Using the latest Tesseract-OCR sources
• Building Tesseract-OCR
  • Building libtesseract and tesseract.exe
  • Testing tesseract.exe
  • Building the training applications
  • Building Tesseract-OCR with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
• Programming with libtesseract
  • Debugging Tips
  • APITest Sample
  • APIExamples
  • Tesseract-OCR preprocessor definitions
• Handy free tools
  • TortoiseSVN
  • JP Software TCC/LE
  • Cygwin
  • MSYS
  • WinDiff
  • IrfanView
  • Aware Systems AsTiffTagViewer
  • Dependency Walker
  • Sysinternals Process Explorer
  • VMware Player
• Maintaining the VS2008 directory
  • The tesshelper.py Python script
  • Generating the documentation
  • Updating the VS2008 directory for new releases of Tesseract-OCR
• Using Visual Studio 2010
• Version Notes
  • 3.02 – February ??, 2012