Dockerfile

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# This is a working example of setting up tesseract/gosseract,
# and also works as an example runtime to use gosseract package.
# You can just hit `docker run -it --rm otiai10/gosseract`
# to try and check it out!
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FROM golang:latest
LABEL maintainer="Hiromu Ochiai <otiai10@gmail.com>"

RUN apt-get update -qq

# You need librariy files and headers of tesseract and leptonica.
# When you miss these or LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set to them,
# you would face an error: "tesseract/baseapi.h: No such file or directory"
RUN apt-get install -y -qq libtesseract-dev libleptonica-dev

# In case you face TESSDATA_PREFIX error, you minght need to set env vars
# to specify the directory where "tessdata" is located.
ENV TESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/share/tesseract-ocr

# Load languages.
# These {lang}.traineddata would b located under ${TESSDATA_PREFIX}/tessdata.
RUN apt-get install -y -qq \
  tesseract-ocr-eng \
  tesseract-ocr-deu \
  tesseract-ocr-jpn
# See https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata for the list of available languages.
# If you want to download these traineddata via `wget`, don't forget to locate
# downloaded traineddata under ${TESSDATA_PREFIX}/tessdata.

RUN go get -t github.com/otiai10/gosseract
RUN cd ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/otiai10/gosseract && go test

# Now, you've got complete environment to play with "gosseract"!
# For other OS, check https://github.com/otiai10/gosseract/tree/master/test/runtimes