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I am trying to use pytesseract in Python but I always end up with the following error:
raise TesseractNotFoundError() pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractNotFoundError: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path However, pytesseract and Tesseract are installed on my system.
Example code that produces this error:
import cv2 import pytesseract img = cv2.imread('1d.png') print(pytesseract.image_to_string(img)) How do I resolve this TesseractNotFoundError?
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We want to use Tesseract from our windows command line and to do that, we have to add Tesseract to our path in the system's environment variable. To do so, click on your start button on windows and search “environment variable”. You will see a result called “Edit the system environment variables”. Click on that.
To verify if Tesseract is successfully installed, you can hit your terminal and type the following. If you receive a few lines of prompt similar to the one below, your Tesseract is installed correctly. Otherwise, you might want to check what has gone wrong by starting from your PATH variable in your system.
You can confirm that pytesseract is installed in your virtual environment by hopping into the Python REPL and trying to import it. pytesseract is installed. Great! But before we can use it, we need to install the tesseract application.
I got this error because I installed pytesseract with pip but forget to install the binary.
sudo apt update sudo apt install tesseract-ocr sudo apt install libtesseract-dev brew install tesseract download binary from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki. then add pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe' to your script. (replace path of tesseract binary if necessary)
references: https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/ (INSTALLATION section) and https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki#installation
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