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Due to this commit, the libtesseract interface segfaults (at least when running tests).

It seems like tesseract >= 4.0.0 needs that binding programs are configured with LC_ALL=C.

I came up with a quick-and-dirty fix (see attached patch 0001-Set-locale-for-tesseract-4.0.0.patch), setting locale before initializing tesseract API and unsetting after:

in src/pyocr/libtesseract/tesseract_raw.py:343

def init(lang=None):
    assert(g_libtesseract)
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "C")
    handle = g_libtesseract.TessBaseAPICreate()
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")

I think that since the library expect to be in C locale unsetting it after is probably a bad idea and should be set in src/pyorc/libtesseract/__init__.py but in that case there could be unexpected side issues (like lang detection in paperwork?). I don't know if the locale.setlocale function is limited to the namespace.