hopefully this works

Author: Samueru-sama

get-dependencies.sh

@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ ARCH=$(uname -m)
 
 echo "Installing package dependencies..."
 echo "---------------------------------------------------------------"
-pacman -Syu --noconfirm gimagereader-qt kvantum lxqt-qtplugin qt6ct
+pacman -Syu --noconfirm \
+	gimagereader-qt    \
+	kvantum            \
+	lxqt-qtplugin      \
+	qt6ct              \
+	tesseract-data-eng \
+	tesseract-data-osd
 
 echo "Installing debloated packages..."
 echo "---------------------------------------------------------------"
@@ -17,6 +23,16 @@ get-debloated-pkgs --add-common --prefer-nano
 
 # If the application needs to be manually built that has to be done down here
 
+# Use tessdata_fast script models since they are way lighter than what archlinux provides
+echo "Downloading tesseract script models..."
+echo "---------------------------------------------------------------"
+dst_dir=/usr/share/tessdata
+tessdata_source=https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_fast/raw/main/script
+for lang in Latin Cyrillic Arabic Devanagari HanS HanT Japanese Hangul Greek; do
+	echo "Downloading $lang.traineddata"
+	wget --retry-connrefused --tries=30 "$tessdata_source"/"$lang".traineddata -O "$dst_dir"/"$lang".traineddata
+done
+
 # if you also have to make nightly releases check for DEVEL_RELEASE = 1
 #
 # if [ "${DEVEL_RELEASE-}" = 1 ]; then

make-appimage.sh

@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ export DESKTOP=/usr/share/applications/gimagereader-qt6.desktop
 # Deploy dependencies
 quick-sharun \
 	/usr/bin/gimagereader-qt6 \
-	/usr/bin/tesseract
+	/usr/bin/tesseract        \
+	/usr/share/tessdata
 
 # Additional changes can be done in between here