Could not initialize Tesseract API with language=eng for tess-two API

Question

I'm trying to implement the tess-two api for my Android application and I'm getting this error no matter how I try to fix it:

E/Tesseract(native): Could not initialize Tesseract API with language=eng!

I do have WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission in the Manifest.

Also in TessBaseAPI.java file in the tess-two library, all the native functions shows

Cannot resolve corresponding JNI function Java_com_googlecode_tesseract_android_TessBaseAPI_nativeClass

How should I go about fixing this?

@rmtheis I saved the trained data in my assets folder. so in /assets/tesseract/tessdata. I cloned the whole tessdata from github so I'm using whatever the current version is. As for calling init, i first copy everything from my assets folder to the sdcard, then call init with datapath /sdcard/tesseract. — June
– June, Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 21:26
@rmtheis since that message is not related to initialization failure, how should i fix it? — June
– June, Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 21:27
I copied the .traineddata file to tessdata/ inside the cache folder and then initialized it pointing to the cache dir. It works for me. — ssimm
– ssimm, Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 17:41

rmtheis · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-05 16:10:03Z

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If you're targeting Android API level 23 (Android 6.0), you need to get user permission to access external storage.

answered Mar 5, 2016 at 16:10

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