A week ago I was contacted by Rakesh Achanta – author of CowBoxer, if I can integrate my patch to new version. This version should be tesseract-ocr 3.00 compliant. So I uploaded new version to svn repository with few small improvements from my side.
I also managed to compile CowBoxer (static and dynamic linked) on Windows XP with recent version of QT4 (4.7.1) and TDM-MinGW. Testers for Mac OS are welcomed!
I am sure this is great news for those who are not able to run pyTesseractTrainer because of its dependencies and resource consumption.