Getting an error when using the image_to_osd method with pytesseract

Question

Here's my code:

import pytesseract
import cv2
from PIL import Image

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"


def main():
    original = cv2.imread('D_Testing.png', 0)
    # binary thresh it at value 100. It is now a black and white image
    ret, original = cv2.threshold(original, 100, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(original, config='--psm 10')
    print(text)
    print(pytesseract.image_to_osd(Image.open('D_Testing.png')))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

For the first out put I get what I need which is the letter D

D

Which is intended, but when it tries to do the second print statement it spits out this.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Me/Documents/Python/OpenCV/OpenCV_WokringTest/PytesseractAttempt.py", line 18, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:/Users/Me/Documents/Python/OpenCV/OpenCV_WokringTest/PytesseractAttempt.py", line 14, in main
    print(pytesseract.image_to_osd(Image.open('D_Testing.png')))
  File "C:\Users\Me\Documents\Python\OpenCV\OpenCV_WokringTest\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 402, in image_to_osd
    }[output_type]()
  File "C:\Users\Me\Documents\Python\OpenCV\OpenCV_WokringTest\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 401, in <lambda>
    Output.STRING: lambda: run_and_get_output(*args),
  File "C:\Users\Me\Documents\Python\OpenCV\OpenCV_WokringTest\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 218, in run_and_get_output
    run_tesseract(**kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Me\Documents\Python\OpenCV\OpenCV_WokringTest\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 194, in run_tesseract
    raise TesseractError(status_code, get_errors(error_string))
pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractError: (1, 'Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v4.0.0.20181030 with Leptonica Warning: Invalid resolution 0 dpi. Using 70 instead. Too few characters. Skipping this page Warning. Invalid resolution 0 dpi. Using 70 instead. Too few characters. Skipping this page Error during processing.'). 

I am not sure what to do. I can't really find too much about this error online. Also I am not sure what to do. The goal is simply to get it spit out the orientation of my letter. Thank you for all helpful comment in advance!

Answer 1

Faced this problem and tried different approaches and finally solved it!!

Just pass the image location directly rather than through Pillow or OpenCV as mentioned by @Esraa Abdelmaksoud

text = pytesseract.image_to_osd(r'Report 2.jpeg')