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+require 'formula'
+
+class TesseractEnglishData <Formula
+  url 'http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-2.00.eng.tar.gz'
+  md5 'b8291d6b3a63ce7879d688e845e341a9'
+  version '2.00'
+end
+
+class Tesseract <Formula
+  url 'http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-2.04.tar.gz'
+  homepage 'http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/'
+  md5 'b44eba1a9f4892ac62e484c807fe0533'
+
+  depends_on 'libtiff'
+
+  def install
+    # 'make install' expects the language data files in the build directory
+    d = Dir.getwd
+    TesseractEnglishData.new.brew { FileUtils.cp Dir["*"], "#{d}/tessdata/" }
+
+    ENV.O3
+    system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--disable-debug", "--disable-dependency-tracking"
+    system "make install"
+  end
+end