Is Windows the right development environment?

With the advent of new server technologies like NoSQL, new specialized development languages, new mobile devices where to deploy, is it Microsoft Windows a good starting point for your development environment or are there any better solutions?

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Tesseract and PyOCR on CentOS 6.x

If you need characters recognition from images using Python, you could use Tesseract and PyOCR to embed a fully functional OCR system into your application. But Tesseract installation is not so easy on CentOS because there are no RPM for Tesseract. This is my journey to have Tesseract fully functional on CentOS and Python, using PyOCR.

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