At least on my version of Ubuntu (Natty Narwhal) the tesseract librar…

…y is labeled as 'tesseract-ocr'

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         (Optional) Install <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/">Tesseract</a>:<br />
-        <tt>[aptitude | port] install tesseract</tt><br />
+        <tt>[aptitude install tesseract-ocr | port install tesseract]</tt><br />
         Without Tesseract installed, you'll still be able to extract text from
         documents, but you won't be able to automatically OCR them.
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