text2tif is a fork of Tesseract's text2image program.
text2tif takes a text file as an input and generates a TIFF image and a *.box file which contains bounding box coordinates for each glyph in the image.
g++ -o text2tif \
-std=c++11 \
-g -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-uninitialized -O0 -DDEBUG \
-DUSE_STD_NAMESPACE \
-DPANGO_ENABLE_ENGINE \
./port/strcasestr.cpp \
./training/boxchar.cpp \
./training/commandlineflags.cpp \
./training/degradeimage.cpp \
./training/fileio.cpp \
./training/ligature_table.cpp \
./training/normstrngs.cpp \
./training/pango_font_info.cpp \
./training/stringrenderer.cpp \
./training/tessopt.cpp \
./training/text2image.cpp \
./training/tlog.cpp \
./ccutil/ccutil.cpp \
./ccutil/errcode.cpp \
./ccutil/memry.cpp \
./ccutil/params.cpp \
./ccutil/scanutils.cpp \
./ccutil/serialis.cpp \
./ccutil/strngs.cpp \
./ccutil/tprintf.cpp \
./ccutil/unichar.cpp \
./ccutil/unicharmap.cpp \
./ccutil/unicharset.cpp \
-lm -pthread -llept \
-I/usr/local/include/leptonica \
-I./port \
-I./training -I./ccutil \
`pkg-config --cflags --libs icu-i18n` \
`pkg-config --cflags --libs pango` \
`pkg-config --cflags --libs cairo` \
`pkg-config --cflags --libs pangocairo` \
`pkg-config --cflags --libs fontconfig` \
`pkg-config --cflags --libs freetype2` \
`pkg-config --cflags --libs pangoft2`