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+# Tesseract Example
+
+A very basic Tesseract-OCR example with C++ Archive Network building.
+
+## Building
+
+### Windows
+
+Prerequisites:
+
+1. Download git, cmake and add them to PATH
+2. Download the latest CPPAN (https://cppan.org/) client from https://cppan.org/client/
+3. Add cppan to PATH too.
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/cppan/tesseract_example tesseract_example
+cd tesseract_example
+cppan
+mkdir build && cd build
+cmake ..
+cmake --build . --config Release
+```
+
+### Linux
+
+Prerequisites:
+
+1. Install git, cmake, the latest CPPAN (https://cppan.org/) client.
+2. Run
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/cppan/tesseract_example tesseract_example
+cd tesseract_example
+cppan
+mkdir build && cd build
+cmake ..
+make -j4
+```
+
+## Testing
+
+1. Download tesseract english data to `tessdata` dir near the `main` binary.
+2. Copy test image `img/phototest.tif`
+3. Run ``main phototest.tif``
