Tesseract couldn't load any languages

Running tesseract makebox command produced me the following error

Error opening data file /opt/local/share/tessdata/eng.traineddata Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to the parent directory of your "tessdata" directory. Failed loading language 'eng' Tesseract couldn't load any languages! Could not initialize tesseract.

The command I used

tesseract eng.HighwayGothic.exp0.tif eng.HighwayGothic.exp0 batch.nochop makebox

Linked Tif file which was produced using GhostScript - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97646145/Issue/Onepage_TIFF.zip

When I accessed the folder tessdata of path /opt/local/share/tessdata/, there weren't any trainneddata. I guess, this is how we load languages

brew install tesseract --all-languages

Nina

Posted 2014-07-03T10:50:40.963

Reputation: 195

On Linux first I checked if package was installed (dpkg -l | grep tesseract and search for install: apt search tesseract | grep -B1 language). I was using an invalid ISO 639-2 (three letters) language code. – Pablo A – 2018-08-22T19:31:17.767

Tesseract couldn't load any languages

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