Tesseract OCR on Windows Python

Asked Jan 09 '16 at 19:23

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I installed the Tesseract OCR engine and the pytesseract client library so that I can read strings that are contained in images. Regardless of which way I cut the cake, I get the following error. Any ideas?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
    pytesseract.image_to_string(i)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 161, in image_to_string
    config=config)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 94, in run_tesseract
    stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 958, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 740] The requested operation requires elevation

asked Jan 09 '16 at 19:23

Malik Brahimi

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So I understand the error. How do I fix it? – Malik Brahimi Jan 09 '16 at 19:40
@jonrsharpe It's not working. – Malik Brahimi Jan 09 '16 at 21:24
What's not working? If the library is broken, raise an issue with the maintainers. – jonrsharpe Jan 09 '16 at 21:24
I installed it long ago, and it worked fine. – Malik Brahimi Jan 09 '16 at 21:25
Now that I am using legitimately using it again, it crashes every time. I even tried editing the source of the library and I got nowhere. – Malik Brahimi Jan 09 '16 at 21:26
It's unlikely it just magically stopped working, so... what *did* change? – jonrsharpe Jan 09 '16 at 21:26
I don't know. I tried reinstalling, and now it's prompting me to install it again and again as the program runs. – Malik Brahimi Jan 09 '16 at 21:28
Then you need to contact the maintainers, SO can't give support with third-party tools. – jonrsharpe Jan 09 '16 at 21:29
@jonrsharpe Here is an [image](http://snag.gy/tnVun.jpg) showing you that. – Malik Brahimi Jan 09 '16 at 21:30

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