Subject: Re: bug#47536: gimage-viewer: needs tessdata package

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:09:38 -0400

Hi,

Christopher Howard <[email-masked]> writes:

> This is kind of borderline here between a wishlist item and a bug-
> report, but gimage-viewer needs a tessdata package as a dependency,
> since otherwise it can't do any OCR scanning at all (no languages
> available). tessdata repo is available at 
> https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/.

Our tesseract-ocr package now includes minimal support for English.  And
support for other languages is made available via the
tesseract-ocr-tessdata-fast package.

Closing, thanks for reporting!

Maxim