How do I resolve a TesseractNotFoundError

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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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Small mistake -- I knew I had to open close my cmd to get the updated path to reflect  Using Jupyter Notebook I had to shutdown the client and re-initialize it also

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There Are few steps to set the path      1 goto this  https   github com UB-Mannheim tesseract wiki       2 download the latest installers       3 install it      4  set the path in system variables such as  C  Program Files Tesseract-OCR  or        C  ProgramFiles  x86  Tesseract-OCR        5   open CMD type  tesseract  and some output except  not regonized type errors

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The following three commands will do the needful     sudo apt update   This will update your packages sudo apt install tesseract-ocr   This will install OCR sudo apt install libtesseract-dev   This will add it as development dependency

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On Ubuntu under flask webframework this should be working pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd   r quot  usr bin tesseract quot  img   Image open picture name  print pytesseract image to string img

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For Mac    Install Pytesseract  pip install pytesseract should work  Install Tesseract but only with homebrew  pip installation somehow doesn t work   brew install tesseract  Get the path of brew installation of Tesseract on your device  brew list tesseract  Add the path into your code  not in sys path  The path is to be added along with code  using pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd     lt path received in step 3 gt   -  e g  pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd     usr local Cellar tesseract 4 0 0 1 bin tesseract     This should work fine

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I got this error because I installed pytesseract with pip but forget to install the binary   On Linux  sudo apt update sudo apt install tesseract-ocr sudo apt 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   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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Install tesseract from https   github com UB-Mannheim tesseract wiki and add the path of tesseract exe to the Path environment variable

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Are you importing   from tesseract import image to string   Don t import from pytesseract

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I was also facing the same issue  just add C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR to your path variable   If it still does not work  add C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR tessdata to your path variable in a new line  And do not forget to restart your computer after adding the path variable

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This occurs under windows  at least in tesseract version 3 05  when the current directory is on a different drive from where tesseract is installed   Something in tesseract is expecting data files to be in  Program Files     rather than C  Program Files  say   So if you re not on the same drive letter as tesseract  it will fail  It would be great if we could work around it by temporarily changing drives  under windows only  to the tesseract installation drive before executing tesseract  and changing back after  Example in your case  You can copy yourmodule python py to  C Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR   and RUN

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CAUTION  ONLY FOR WINDOWS   I came across this problem today and all the answers mentioned here helped me  but I personally had to dig a lot to solve it  So let me help all others by putting out the solution to it in a very simple form   Download the executable 64 bit  32-bit if your computer is of 32 bit  exe from here   Name of the file would be tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5 0 0 20190526  alpha      Install it  Let it install itself in the default C directory   Now go to your Environment variable  Reach there by just searching it in the start menu or Go to Control Panel  gt  System  gt  Advanced System Settings  gt  Environment Variables    a  Select PATH and then Edit it  Click on NEW and add the path where it is installed  Usually C  Program Files Tesseract-OCR   Now you will not get the error

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One simple thing that actually worked for me in Jupyter Notebook  was using double backslash instead of a single backslash in the pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd path   pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd    C   Program Files  x86   Tesseract-OCR  tesseract exe

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Just run these command if you are using linux  sudo apt update sudo apt install tesseract-ocr sudo apt install libtesseract-dev  then run this  python -m pip install tesseract tesseract-ocr pytesseract

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You can download tesseract-ocr setup using the following link   Tesseract for windows  Then add new variable with name tesseract in environment variables with value C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe

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I face this same issue  I just use this command that will help me   sudo apt install tesseract-ocr   Note that this will only work on Ubuntu  sudo is a Unix exclusive command  Linux  Mac  Rasbian  etc   while apt is Ubuntu specific

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I was also facing the same error when I was trying to make a text-extractor using pytesseract  but the solution was there in installation instructions for  pytesseract in pypi site  pytesseract There are many alternatives to avoid the error  But  adding one more parameter in the method pytesseract image to string solved it for me  like  tessdata dir config     usr share tesseract-ocr 4 00 tessdata  output   pytesseract image to string image  lang  eng   config tessdata dir config

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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

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Under Windows 10 OS environment  the following method works for me    https   github com tesseract-ocr tesseract wiki 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    D  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe  You may also need add environment variable D  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR    Hope it works for you

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I faced the same problem  I hope you have installed from here and have also done pip install pytesseract   If everything is fine you should see that the path C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR where tesseract exe is available   Adding Path variable did not helped me  I actually added new variable with name tesseract in environment variables with a value of C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe   Typing tesseract in the command line should now work as expected by giving you usage informations  You can now use pytesseract as such  don t forget to restart your python kernel before running this      import pytesseract from PIL import Image  value Image open  text image png   text   pytesseract image to string value  config         print  text present in images   text    enjoy

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I tried adding to the path variable like others have mentioned  but still received the same error  what worked was adding this to my script      pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd   r C  Program Files    x86  Tesseract-OCR tesseract exe

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I m currently using Windows and needed to develop a PDF parser but adding a new environment variable via sysdm cpl alone did not work  For other Windows user  I strongly suggest adding C  Program Files  x86  Tesseract-OCR to your profile ps1 as well  if using Powershell that is

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I m running on a Mac OS and installed tesseract with brew so here s my take on this  Since pytesseract is just how you can access tesseract from python  you have to specify where tesseract is already on your computer     For Mac OS  Try finding where the tesseract exe is- if you installed it using     brew  on your the terminal use        gt brew list tesseract   This should list where your tesseract exe is  somewhere more or less like    gt   usr local Cellar tesseract 3 05 02 bin tesseract   Then following their instructions   pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd   r  lt full path to your tesseract executable gt        pytesseract pytesseract tesseract cmd   r  usr local Cellar tesseract 3 05 02 bin tesseract    should do the trick

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Most likely you have different versions of Python installed  ensure that the installed Tesseract is on the same Python version   which pip3 shows you the path to the pip3 installation and which python3 shows the corresponding path to the Python installation    Ensure that these two are the same

[python] How do I resolve a TesseractNotFoundError?

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