Compiling Tesseract native library for Android (libtess.so) on a Windows PC

Question

I am trying to compile Tesseract 4.x for Android, and get the libtess.so/libtesseract.so file (32bit & 64 bit) which is compatible with a LSTM traineddata file. Now, here is the link for official docs for this :

• Tesseract_compilation_guide_Android

• Tesseract_compilation_with_docker

I tried both the docker approach and the terminal approach (on a Windows machine with Cgywin). But got stuck in both cases.

For docker approach, the error was :

pull access denied for bad-tiff, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'

for the line "FROM bad-tiff:4.0.10-$ARCH AS tiff-dep" in dockerfile_link_badTesseract_GitRepo

For terminal approach, using cgywin, couldn't run "ndk-build -C tess-two-git/tess-two tesseract APP_ABI=arm64-v8a" from tesseract_doc_link, with error "NDK command not found" error.

Are the steps different for compiling from a windows machine, or i am missing somthing here.

Answer 1

Follow this thread to compile tesseract 4 on windows