Tesseract not working when called from java application on redhat 6.2 box

Question

I have a custom script which converts jpg to txt using tessaract 3.01. When i execute the script from command line the conversion works fine but when the same script is executed from a java application running on tomcat, it seems the application cannot find tesseract. This issue is happening on my redhat 6.2 box but not on my ubuntu 12.04 box.

The script:

#!/bin/sh 
SOURCE=$1 
TARGET=/tmp/ocrOutput 
echo "Starting tesseract" 
tesseract $SOURCE $TARGET -l eng 
echo " Finished"

Can someone please advice?

Answer 1

The informations given are very minimal, but I guess it is a path problem. Try to use the full path when calling tesseract.