How to configure and build Tesseract OCR C++ using Visual Studio 2015 x64 on Windows 10

Question

I am trying to run the VS2015_Tesseract example in Tesseract OCR Library.

I always get the following error when I try to open the file:

Could not find a part of the path

Currently I am working with Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10 (64 bit).

Please provide the full information on how I can configure the Tesseract OCR C++ library on Visual Studio 2015 Windows 10 (64 bit) .

You also can provide any reference tutorial links.

Answer 1

1. You have to download the vs2015_Tesseract or simply run the following git command in working directory:

   git clone https://github.com/peirick/VS2015_Tesseract.git

2. Run the build_tesseract.bat file.

3. Activate tesseract as the startup project.