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gimage-viewer: needs tessdata package

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Message #10 received at 47536-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher <at> librehacker.com>
Cc: 47536-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47536: gimage-viewer: needs tessdata package
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:09:38 -0400

Hi,

Christopher Howard <christopher <at> librehacker.com> 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

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