Instructions for manually installing Homer on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

1. If you have already tried to install Homer, then uninstall it completely using the “uninstall.command” script included in the /Applications/Homer directory

2. Download “Command-Line Tools for Mountain Lion” from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action Log in with your Apple ID, or sign up if you don't have one (the download is free).

3. Install Homebrew: simply paste this command in the Terminal, run and follow the onscreen instructions:

   ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)
   

4. Install ImageMagick, jbig2enc and tesseract via Homebrew, running this command in the Terminal:

   brew install imagemagick jbig2enc tesseract
   

5. Install rmagick, hpricot and pdfbeads via Ruby Gem, running this command in the Terminal:

   sudo gem install rmagick hpricot pdfbeads
   

6. By default, Tesseract OCR installation downloads only the English language. You can either download the languages you need from Tesseract website, or you can run the following commands in the Terminal to download and install all the extra OCR languages included in the original Homer setup (~200MB):

   curl -o /tmp/tessdata.tar.gz https://dl.dropbox.com/u/189038/tessdata.tar.gz
   tar xz -mf /tmp/tessdata.tar.gz -C /usr/local/share/
   rm -f /tmp/tessdata.tar.gz
   

7. Download the latest version of ScanTailor for OS X from the following url, and then move it to the /Applications folder to install:

   http://code.google.com/p/scantailor-osx/downloads/list

8. Install the homer script, by running these commands in the Terminal:

   curl -o /tmp/homer.sh-1.0b1.tar.gz https://dl.dropbox.com/u/189038/homer.sh-1.0b1.tar.gz
   tar xz -mf /tmp/homer.sh-1.0b1.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin
   rm -f /tmp/homer.sh-1.0b1.tar.gz
   chmod +x /usr/local/bin/homer
   

9. Download the standalone Homer.app from the following link, unzip and move the “Homer” folder to /Applications in order to install. Then, you may drag the Homer.app to the Dock, if you like:

   https://dl.dropbox.com/u/189038/Homer.app-v1.0b1.tar.gz