SUMMARY I had installed tesseract in order to use Spectacles recently added OCR functionality. This worked perfectly fine, until a recent update system update broke the functionality. Now, the configuration menu of Spectacle says that OCR functionality is not available. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install Fedora KDE version on your device 2. install tesseract 5.5.2 3. Try to activate the OCR functionality in Spectacle OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 43 KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0 Qt Version: 6.10.2 Kernel Version: 6.19.8-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 14 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 225U Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (6.7 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Terminal output: username@devicename:~$ spectacle spectacle: Unable to load Tesseract candidate "tesseract" : "Cannot load library tesseract: tesseract: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" spectacle: Unable to locate a suitable Tesseract shared library spectacle: Tesseract runtime library not available $ tesseract --version tesseract 5.5.2 leptonica-1.87.0 libgif 5.2.2 : libjpeg 6b (libjpeg-turbo 3.1.2) : libpng 1.6.55 : libtiff 4.7.1 : zlib 1.3.1.zlib-ng : libwebp 1.6.0 Found AVX2 Found AVX Found FMA Found SSE4.1 Found libcurl/8.15.0 OpenSSL/3.5.4 zlib/1.3.1.zlib-ng brotli/1.2.0 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.5 libssh/0.11.4/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.66.0 OpenLDAP/2.6.13
I have the same problem. Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260324 KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0 Qt Version: 6.10.2 Kernel Version: 6.19.9-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland tesseract --version tesseract 5.5.2 leptonica-1.87.0 libgif 5.2.2 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 3.1.2) : libpng 1.6.55 : libtiff 4.7.1 : zlib 1.3.1 : libwebp 1.6.0 : libopenjp2 2.5.4 Found AVX512BW Found AVX512F Found AVX512VNNI Found AVX2 Found AVX Found FMA Found SSE4.1 Found OpenMP 201511 Found libarchive 3.8.5 zlib/1.3.1 liblzma/5.8.2 bz2lib/1.0.8 liblz4/1.10.0 libzstd/1.5.7 libxml2/2.14.5 openssl/3.5.3 libb2/bundled libacl/2.3.2 libattr/2.3.2 Found libcurl/8.19.0 OpenSSL/3.5.3 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.2.0 zstd/1.5.7 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.5 libssh/0.11.4/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.68.0 ngtcp2/1.21.0 nghttp3/1.15.0 mit-krb5/1.22.2 OpenLDAP/2.6.10