Importing pytesseract

Question

I have trying to use pytesseract for OCR (extracting text from the image). I have successfully installed pytessearct by using the command -

pip install pytessearct

When I try to install it again, it clearly says -

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): 
pytesseract in ./site-packages

This means pytessearct is installed successfully. When i try to import this package in my iPython notebook using -

import pytessearct

It throws an error -

ImportError: No module named pytesseract

Why is that happening?

Is this ./site-packages that came with python installation (or) a reference path from your project directory? — be_good_do_good, Aug 06 '16 at 05:05
can you create a environmental variable "PYTHONPATH" and full path of site-packages as a value to the created variable (PYTHONPATH) — be_good_do_good, Aug 07 '16 at 06:01
I created the variable as told by you. Is there any other change I need to do? Because the problem still exists. — ComplexData, Aug 08 '16 at 18:06
Did you add full path of site-packages as value to that system variable that you created? — be_good_do_good, Aug 08 '16 at 18:16
Yes I did. So in the bash file, I did - export PYTHONPATH = $(path of site-packages). Is that correct? — ComplexData, Aug 08 '16 at 18:40
IPython may be running in a different Python installation from the one pip is installing to. Check `sys.path` inside IPython to see the directories it will try to import from. — Thomas K, Aug 10 '16 at 23:32

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 11 '17 at 10:13

To use Python-tesseract - requires python 2.5+ or python 3.x - first you have to install PIL and pytesseract packages through pip:

pip install Pillow
pip install pytesseract

Then you have to download and install the tesseract OCR:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr-alt/?source=typ_redirect

As far as I know it automatically adds it to your PATH variable.

Then use it like this way:

import pytesseract
from PIL import Image

img = Image.open('Capture.PNG')
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe'
print( pytesseract.image_to_string(img) )

I hope it helps :)

instead of downloading the ocr: `sudo apt install tesseract-ocr` — Roman, Oct 31 '18 at 22:21

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