I have been trying to do some OCR on Mageia. gocr works but I'm somewhat underwhelmed with the results so I've installed ocrfeeder and tesseract, but can't get either to work. When I try to run ocrfeeder I get an icon in my task bar for a few sceonds but nothing else happens. If I attempt to use tesseract from a command line I get the following messages:
name_to_image_type:Error:Unrecognized image type:xsane.png
IMAGE::read_header:Error:Can't read this image type:xsane.png
Read of file xsane.png failed.
I have also tried this with a pnm file with the same results (I own both files and have RW access). I have also tried the above on ubuntu using the exact same files and both ocrfeeder and tesseract work fine, so my files would appear to be OK.
I'm running Mageia2 64bit fully updated and have the core, nonfree and tainted release and update channels checked.
Any ideas greatly appreciated thanks...