Could not initialize Tesseract API with language=eng!

[raitono]

I am getting the above error message when I try to use tess-two in my Android application. I am able use the Simple-Android-OCR application and I have used some of the code from it in my own application. This is where I try to initialize the API:

TessBaseAPI baseApi = new TessBaseAPI();
baseApi.setDebug(true);
baseApi.init(path.getAbsolutePath(), lang);

Here are the variables used:

public static File path = getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES);
public static final String lang = "eng";

I don't know why I am getting this error and I don't know how to go about fixing it. I have done some searches but I didn't turn up anything useful. I did look at some of the source code and I saw where this error is printed, but I couldn't find the api.Init(c_dir, c_lang) method that it refers to. I would appreciate any help in tracking this error down.

[rmtheis]

The path is for pointing to your data files. You must have a subdirectory
named "tessdata". See

tess-two/tess-two/src/com/googlecode/tesseract/android/TessBaseAPI.java

Line 176 in d7a45fd

* The datapath must be the name of the parent directory of tessdata and

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On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Ben Painter notifications@github.comwrote:

I am getting the above error message when I try to use tess-two in my
Android application. I am able use the Simple-Android-OCR application and I
have used some of the code from it in my own application. This is where I
try to initialize the API:

TessBaseAPI baseApi = new TessBaseAPI();
baseApi.setDebug(true);
baseApi.init(path.getAbsolutePath(), lang);

Here are the variables used:

public static File path =
getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES);
public static final String lang = "eng";

I don't know why I am getting this error and I don't know how to go about
fixing it. I have done some searches but I didn't turn up anything useful.
I did look at some of the source code and I saw where this error is
printed, but I couldn't find the api.Init(c_dir, c_lang) method that it
refers to. I would appreciate any help in tracking this error down.

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[raitono]

I see. One of the portions of code I had copied was supposed to copy the contents of the tessdata directory from my assets folder. I had assumed it worked since I didn't get the error message "Data path must contain subfolder tessdata!" I'll look over that portion again and see if I messed it up.

[Chan2U]

Have you solved it?

[raitono]

Considering this thread is 4 years old, I don't remember much about it. But it's safe to say no, I didn't since my project died.