Pytesseract TesseractNotFound Error tesseract is not installed or it s not in your path how do I fix this

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I m trying to run a basic and very simple code in python    from PIL import Image import pytesseract  im   Image open  sample1 jpg    text   pytesseract image to string im  lang    eng    print text    This is what it looks like  I have actually installed tesseract for windows through the installer  I m very new to Python  and I m unsure how to proceed    Any guidance here would be very helpful  I ve tried restarting my Spyder application but to no avail

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you can install this package    https   github com UB-Mannheim tesseract wiki after that you should go this path C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR  tesseract exe  then run tesseract file  I think this will help you

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I had the same issue on Windows   I tried to update the environment variables for the path of tesseract which did not work   What worked for me was to modify the pytesseract py which can be found at the path C  Program Files Python37 Lib site-packages pytesseract or usually in the C  Users YOUR USER APPDATA Python  I changed one line as per below    tesseract cmd    tesseract    tesseract cmd    C  Program Files Tesseract-OCR  tesseract exe    Note I had to put an extra   before tesseract as Python was interpreting same as  t and you will get the below error message      pytesseract pytesseract TesseractNotFoundError  C  Program Files Tesseract-OCR  esseract exe is not installed or it s not in your path

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In windows   pip install tesseract   pip install tesseract-ocr  and check the file which is stored in your system usr appdata local programs site-pakages python python36 lib pytesseract pytesseract py file  and  compile the file

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I can solve it by updating the tesseract cmd variable with the bin tesseract path in the pytesseract py file

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From https   pypi org project pytesseract     pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd     lt full path to your tesseract executable gt     Include the above line  if you don t have tesseract executable in your PATH   Example tesseract cmd   C   Program Files  x86   Tesseract-OCR  tesseract

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Solution for UBUNTU Worked for me  Installed tesseract in ubuntu by following below link https   medium com quantrium-tech installing-tesseract-4-on-ubuntu-18-04-b6fcd0cbd78f Later added traindata language to tessdata by following below link Tesseract running error

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I see steps are scattered in different answers  Based on my recent experience with this pytesseract error on Windows  writing different steps in sequence to make it easier to resolve the error  1  Install tesseract using windows installer available at  https   github com UB-Mannheim tesseract wiki 2  Note the tesseract path from the installation  Default installation path at the time of this edit was  C  Users USER AppData Local Tesseract-OCR  It may change so please check the installation path  3  pip install pytesseract 4  Set the tesseract path in the script before calling image to string  pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd   r C  Users USER AppData Local Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe

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In windows  the command path must be redirected  for a default windows tesseract installation    In 32 bit system  add in this line after import commands    pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd    C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe      In 64 bit system  add this line instead     pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd    C  Program Files Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe

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For Windows Only 1 - You need to have Tesseract OCR installed on your computer   get it from here  https   github com UB-Mannheim tesseract wiki Download the suitable version   2 - Add Tesseract path to your System Environment  i e  Edit system variables  3 - Run pip install pytesseract and pip install tesseract 4 - Add this line to your python script every time pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd    C  OCR Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe     your path may be different  5 - Run the code

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Step 1   Install tesseract on your system as per the OS   Latest installers can be found at https   github com UB-Mannheim tesseract wiki  Step 2  Install the following dependency libraries using       pip install pytesseract    pip install opencv-python    pip install numpy  Step 3   Sample code  import cv2 import numpy as np import pytesseract from PIL import Image from pytesseract import image to string    Path of working folder on Disk Replace with your working folder src path    C   Users   lt user gt   PycharmProjects  ImageToText  input      If you don t have tesseract executable in your PATH  include the  following  pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd    C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-  OCR tesseract  TESSDATA PREFIX    C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR   def get string img path         Read image with opencv     img   cv2 imread img path         Convert to gray     img   cv2 cvtColor img  cv2 COLOR BGR2GRAY         Apply dilation and erosion to remove some noise     kernel   np ones  1  1   np uint8      img   cv2 dilate img  kernel  iterations 1      img   cv2 erode img  kernel  iterations 1         Write image after removed noise     cv2 imwrite src path    removed noise png   img          Apply threshold to get image with only black and white      img   cv2 adaptiveThreshold img  255  cv2 ADAPTIVE THRESH GAUSSIAN C  cv2 THRESH BINARY  31  2         Write the image after apply opencv to do some         cv2 imwrite src path    thres png   img         Recognize text with tesseract for python     result   pytesseract image to string Image open src path    thres png           Remove template file      os remove temp       return result   print  --- Start recognize text from image ---   print get string src path    image png      print  ------ Done -------

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You would be needing to install tesseract      https   github com tesseract-ocr tesseract wiki   Check out the above documentation on the installation

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There are already many nice answers to this problem but I would like to share a wonderful site that I came across when I couldnt solve the  TesseractNotFound Error  tesseract is not installed or it s not in your path    Please refer this site  https   www thetopsites net article 50655738 shtml I realised that I got this error because I installed pytesseract with pip but forget to install the binary  You are probably missing tesseract-ocr from your machine  Check the installation instructions here  https   github com tesseract-ocr tesseract wiki On a Mac  you can just install using homebrew  brew install tesseract It should run fine after that  Under Windows 10 OS environment  the following method works for me   Go to this link and Download tesseract and install it  Windows version is available here  https   github com UB-Mannheim tesseract wiki  Find script file pytesseract py from C  Users User Anaconda3 Lib site-packages pytesseract and open it  Change the following code from tesseract cmd    tesseract  to  tesseract cmd    C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe   This is the path where you install Tesseract-OCR so please check where you install it and accordingly update the path   You may also need to add environment variable C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR    Hope it works for you

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For Ubuntu 18 04   If you are getting an error like   tesseract is not installed or it s not in your path   and    OSError   Errno 12  Cannot allocate memory   That might be and issue with the swap memory allocation issue  You can check this answer allocating more swap memory Hope that helps      https   askubuntu com questions 920595 fallocate-fallocate-failed-text-file-busy-in-ubuntu-17-04 answertab active tab-top

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On Mac  you can install it like shown below  This works for me   brew install tesseract

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Windows 10 instructions    before you use the script you need to install the dependence   1  download the tesseract from the official link      https   github com UB-Mannheim tesseract wiki   2  install the tesseract     i chosed this path          replace the user string in the below path with you name of user that you are using in your current machine         C  Users user AppData Local Tesseract-OCR    3  Install the  pillow for your python version     the best way for me is to install is this form i am using python3 7 version and in my CMD i run this version of python by     typing py -3 7       if you are using another version of python first look how you start the python from you CMD     for some machine the run of python from the CMD is different        examples                                                PYTHON VERSION 3 7       python       python3 7       python -3 7       python 3 7       python3       python -3       python 3       py3 7       py -3 7       py 3 7       py3       py -3       py 3       PYTHON VERSION 3 6       python       python3 6       python -3 6       python 3 6       python3       python -3       python 3       py3 6       py -3 6       py 3 6       py3       py -3       py 3       PYTHON VERSION 2 7       python       python2 7       python -2 7       python 2 7       python2       python -2       python 2       py2 7       py -2 7       py 2 7       py2       py -2       py 2                                          we are using pip to install the dependences   because for me i start the python version 3 7 with the following line        py -3 7   open the CMD in windows machine and type the following line        py -3 7 -m pip install pillow   4  Install the  pytesseract and tesseract for your python version     the best way for me is to install is this form i am using python3 7 version and in my CMD i run this version of python by     typing py -3 7     we are using pip to install the dependences   open the CMD in windows machine and type the following lines        py -3 7 -m pip install pytesseract       py -3 7 -m pip install tesseract      usr bin python from PIL import Image import pytesseract import os import getpass  def extract text from image image file name arg          IMPORTANT       if you have followed my instructions to install this dependence in above text explanatin       for my machine is       if you don t put the right path for tesseract exe the script will not work     username   getpass getuser         here above line get the username for your machine automatically     tesseract exe path installation  C   Users    username    AppData  Local  Tesseract-OCR  tesseract exe      pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd tesseract exe path installation    specify the direction of your image files manually or use line bellow if the images are in the script directory in     folder  images       image dir  D   GIT  ai example  extract text from image  images      image dir os getcwd      images      dir seperator          image file name image file name arg       if your image are in different format change the extension ex    png       image ext   jpg      image path dir image dir dir seperator image file name image ext      print                                                                                      print  image used is in the following path dir        print   t  image path dir      print                                                                                       img Image open image path dir      text pytesseract image to string img  lang  eng       print text     change the name  image 1  whith the name without extension for your image name   image file name arg  image 1  image file name arg  image 2    image file name arg  image 3    image file name arg  image 4    image file name arg  image 5  extract text from image image file name arg                                          CREATED BY  SHERIFI   e-mail  sherif co yahoo com   git-link for script  https   github com sherifi ai example git

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On Windows 64 bits  just add the following to the PATH environment variable   C  Program Files Tesseract-OCR  and it will work

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First you should install binary   On Linux  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libleptonica-dev  sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-dev sudo apt-get install libtesseract-dev   On Mac  brew install tesseract   On Windows  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   Then you should install python package using pip   pip install tesseract pip install tesseract-ocr   references  https   pypi org project pytesseract   INSTALLATION section  and  https   github com tesseract-ocr tesseract wiki installation

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For Windows users only  Install tesseract using  pip install tesseract  and then add this line to your code  mind the  quot   quot  pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd    quot C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR  tesseract exe quot

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This error is because tesseract is not installed on your computer  If you are using Ubuntu install tesseract using following command  sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr  For mac  brew install tesseract

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Perhaps this is happening because  even if Tesseract is correctly installed  you have not installed your language  as was my case  Fortunately this is very easy to fix  and I did not even need to mess with tesseract cmd  sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr -y sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-spa -y tesseract --list-langs  Note that in the second line we have specified -spa for Spanish  If installation has been successful  you should get a list of your available languages  like  List of available languages  3   eng osd spa  I found this at this blog post  Spanish   There is also a post for installation of Spanish language in Windows  not as easy apparently   Note  since the question uses lang    eng   it is likely this is not the answer in that specific case  But the same error may happen in this other situation  which is why I posted the answer here

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There looks to be an issue with the latest version of the pip module pytesseract 0 3 7  I have downgraded it to pytesseract 0 3 6 and don t see the error

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Use the following command to install tesseract  pip install tesseract

[python] Pytesseract : "TesseractNotFound Error: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path", how do I fix this?

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