trying to OCR a simple tif file with tesseract-ocr

[Robert P. J. Day]

  a little more googling suggests that i'm not the only person who's
run into this issue:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1599686

the symptoms described there are *exactly* what i'm seeing -- the
output file consisting of a single byte.  so can anyone else try a
simple tesseract invocation on a trivial .tif file and verify whether
or not they get actual output?

rday

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