zdenop

Please provide an input image. Words are useless.

I am sorry, but I have a minimum spare time for tesseract. PR seems to be interesting, but as this effect API, it should be well tested including effect on...

I am afraid we can do nothing here: text2image uses pango for working with fonts, so if there (in pango) is problem/error it must be solved there. Anyway simple test...

@benjaminlbz : please reply also for [rest of question from amitdo](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3200#issuecomment-752249046)...

Which traineddata use used (best/fast/tessdata)?

;-) AFAIK ubuntu use fast, no clue about mac. Check filesize of traineddata . Try to use [best ](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best) on both installation.

The funny part is that OCR process of this image fails here: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/b5878c23a70a6709e722aea5a3304a4c5c87313b/src/api/baseapi.cpp#L974-L976 Because when the file format is unknown (`IFF_UNKNOWN`), tesseract API(???) expects it is a file list: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/b5878c23a70a6709e722aea5a3304a4c5c87313b/src/api/baseapi.cpp#L1201-L1210...

@amitdo: poor user do not use git ;-) IMO this it start of "rethinking" what is the best way of tesseract distribution. From tessdata only pdf.ttf is really needed (maybe...

Unfortunately windows build does not work (for me): I tried Clang (14) and MS Visual Studio (2019). Here are logs: [clang_build.zip](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/files/8811716/clang_build.zip) [msvc_build.zip](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/files/8811717/msvc_build.zip)

`cmake-win64` action has some strange error: it fails already on unzipping zlib (or maybe even earlier: during setting up shell?)  And `vcpkg` is IMO not building the HEAD, but...