Tess4J, not finding tessdata

Question

So I am working on this project and I need to use tess4J inorder to read some text on some images. Unfortunatly i can not seem to resolve the following error:

Error opening data file C:\Users\****\eclipse workspace\****\tessdata\eng.traineddata Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to your "tessdata" directory. Failed loading language 'eng' Tesseract couldn't load any languages!

The path for the tessdata folder is given using instance.setDatapath("C:\\\\Users\\\\****\\\\eclipse workspace\\\\****\\\\tessdata\\\\")

Where instance is ITesseract instance = new Tesseract();

Any help to resolve this issue is appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

Make sure your eng.traineddata file is not corrupted and of the correct version. If it is for Tesseract 4.0, use either fast or best.

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr