When I do the following procedure with tesseract-ocr-1.03 it hust returns garbage. The tesseract-ocr-1.02.02022007 returns well recognized output. With app-text/tesseract-ocr-1.02.02022007: > cp /usr/share/doc/tesseract-1.02.02022007/phototest.tif.bz2 . > bunzip2 phototest.tif.bz2 > tesseract phototest.tif phototest > cat phototest.txt This is a lot of 12 point text to test the ocr code and see if it works on all types of file format. The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox. The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox. The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox. The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox. With app-text/tesseract-ocr-1.03 > cp /usr/share/doc/tesseract-1.03/phototest.tif.bz2 . > bunzip2 phototest.tif.bz2 > tesseract phototest.tif phototest > cat phototest.txt pmorvxu qo6 jnwbeq oAeL we gas?` ;ox~ ]F1LUbGq OAGL QJG {SEA {OX` j_}.IG dF1!C}( OAGL [{16 {SEA J`OX~ j_}JG ClI'1!C}( pLOMU qo6 gas?` ;ox~ ipe dngcg pkorvxu qod jnuabeq j_}JG ClI'1!C}( pLOMU qo6 ]f1!JJbGq OAGL HJG 0% HIS J=OHiJ9I~ OCL COqG *3Uq 266 QJG ![ MOLK2 OU *3}} []xbG2 J.!J!e !e 9 lot 0% JS bO!U{ IGXI to [Gel {IJG Any Ideas? Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.14.2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14.2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:28:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/gentoo-de /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/portage/local/layman/php-testing" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apache2 avi bitmap-fonts crypt cups dba dlloader encode expat foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib jpeg libg++ libwww maildir motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline session spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode x86 xml2 zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark ati chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mga neomagic nsc nv rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Fixed in app-text/tesseract-1.03-r1