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Installing Tesseract OCR on Mac OS X Lion

The simplest way, of course, is using Macports:

sudo port install tesseract

But this can get a bit outdated. To get the absolute latest version from source:

1. Get dependencies:

   sudo port install leptonica
   

2. Get source:

   svn checkout http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ tesseract-ocr
   

3. Compile and install:

   cd tesseract-ocr
   ./autogen.sh
   export LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR="/opt/local/include/leptonica"
   make
   sudo make install
   sudo make install-langs
   

This is correct as of revision 729.