OCR D on POWER8

Running OCR-D on POWER8 (IBM pSeries)

POWER8 systems with UBUNTU 18.04 LTS (Bionic) can run parts of the OCR-D software stack. There is currently no ready-to-use TensorFlow available for that platform, so all OCR-D processors which require TensorFlow will be unavailable.

Basically the installation and instructions are the same as for Intel / AMD based hardware.

Some additional software had to be installed:

sudo apt install libssl1.0-dev
pip install scikit-build

Either exclude all submodules which require TensorFlow from the build, or run make -k to ignore build errors.

Full support with TensorFlow would require local builds of versions 1.15, 2.1 and 2.2, possibly each taking more than a day.