go.leptonica wraps the leptonica library for "efficient image processing and image analysis operations".

go.leptonica requires the leptonica library and development headers to compile. Install following instructions below, then use the gopkg.in versioned release:

go get gopkg.in/GeertJohan/go.leptonica.v1

sudo apt-get install libleptonica-dev

Install dependencies.

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev zlib1g-dev

Download, configure, make and install

wget http://leptonica.googlecode.com/files/leptonica-1.69.tar.gz
tar zxvf leptonica-1.69.tar.gz
cd leptonica-1.69
./configure
make
sudo make install