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-#!/usr/bin/env -S sh -ex
-
-####################################################################
-# setup by tracey apr 2012
-# updated version dec 2016
-# see: http://www.ccextractor.org/doku.php
-####################################################################
-
-
-# build it static!
-# simplest way is with linux alpine
-# hop onto box with docker on it and cd to dir of the file you are staring at
-# You will get a static-compiled binary and english language library file in the end.
-if [ ! -e /tmp/cc/ccextractor-README.txt ]; then
-  rm -rf /tmp/cc;
-  mkdir -p -m777 /tmp/cc;
-  mkdir -p -m777 ../lib/tessdata/;
-  cp ccextractor-README.txt /tmp/cc/;
-  sudo docker run -v /tmp/cc:/tmp/cc --rm -it alpine:latest /tmp/cc/ccextractor-README.txt;
-  # NOTE: _AFTER_ testing/validating, you can promote it from "ccextractor.next" to "ccextractor"... ;-)
-  cp /tmp/cc/*traineddata ../lib/tessdata/;
-  chmod go-w ../lib/tessdata/;
-  exit 0;
-fi
-
-# NOW we are inside docker container...
-cd /tmp/cc;
-
-
-# we want tesseract (for OCR)
-echo '
-http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.5/main
-http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.5/community
-' >| /etc/apk/repositories;
-apk update;  apk upgrade;
-
-apk add --update bash zsh alpine-sdk perl;
-
-# (needed by various static builds below)
-# Even though we're going to (re)builid tesseract from source statically, get its dependencies setup by
-# installing it now, too.
-apk add autoconf automake libtool tesseract-ocr-dev;
-
-
-# Now comes the not-so-fun parts...  Many packages _only_ provide .so files in their distros -- not the .a
-# needed files for building something with it statically.  Step through them now...
-
-
-# libgif
-wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/files/giflib-5.1.4.tar.gz;
-zcat giflib*tar.gz | tar xf -;
-cd giflib*/;
-./configure --disable-shared --enable-static;  make;  make install;
-hash -r;
-cd -;
-
-
-# libwebp
-git clone https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp;
-cd libwebp;
-./autogen.sh;
-./configure --disable-shared --enable-static;  make;  make install;
-cd -;
-
-
-# leptonica
-wget http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.73.tar.gz;
-zcat leptonica*tar.gz | tar xf -;
-cd leptonica*/;
-./configure --disable-shared --enable-static;  make;  make install;
-hash -r;
-cd -;
-
-
-# tesseract
-git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract;
-cd tesseract;
-./autogen.sh;
-./configure --disable-shared --enable-static;  make;  make install;
-cd -;
-
-
-# ccextractor -- build static
-git clone https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor;
-cd ccextractor/linux/;
-perl -i -pe 's/O3 /O3 -static /' Makefile;
-set +e; # this _will_ FAIL at the end..
-make ENABLE_OCR=yes;
-set -e;
-# I confess hand-compiling (cherrypicking which .a to use when there are 2, etc.) is fragile...
-# But it was the _only_ way I could get a fully static build after hours of thrashing...
-gcc -Wno-write-strings -Wno-pointer-sign -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DVERSION_FILE_PRESENT -O3 -std=gnu99 -s -DENABLE_OCR -DPNG_NO_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include/tesseract -I/usr/local/include/leptonica objs/*.o -o ccextractor \
-  --static -lm -lgpac \
-  /usr/local/lib/libtesseract.a \
-  /usr/local/lib/liblept.a \
-  /usr/local/lib/libgif.a \
-  /usr/local/lib/libwebp.a \
-  /usr/lib/libjpeg.a \
-  /usr/lib/libtiff.a \
-  /usr/lib/libgomp.a \
-   -lstdc++;
-
-cp ccextractor /tmp/cc/ccextractor.next;
-cd -;
-
-# get english lang trained data
-wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata;