No module named tesseract

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Working on an OCR. I can import pytesseract and use image_to_string but I want to work on this:

api = tesseract.TessBaseAPI()
api.SetVariable("tessedit_char_whitelist", "0123456789")
api.Init('.','eng',tesseract.OEM_DEFAULT)
api.SetPageSegMode(tesseract.PSM_AUTO)

This is to set tesseract to detect only numbers or alphabets. When I run my code I get this error:

ImportError: No module named tesseract

I have tesseract-ocr installed, and pytesseract as well. Yet I keep getting this error.

I'm not the big python guy but i think this is the 5th time this month i read about this Error on SO. Possible Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33401767/importerror-no-module-named-pytesseract — Smartis has left SO again, Feb 21 '17 at 14:13
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15512193/tesseract-use-subset-of-letters — U.Swap, Feb 21 '17 at 14:42
@U.Swap thats exactly what I'm aiming for but I get the no module named tessseract error. despite pip installing pytesseract and tesseract-ocr — Siddhesh Acharekar, Feb 21 '17 at 14:47
Have you solved the problem? If not, can you edit the question to include your complete code for looking at it? — thewaywewere, Apr 06 '17 at 20:32

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '18 at 18:57

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I ran into this problem while trying to run pytesseract in Pycharm. Make sure you have an environmental path var to the Tesseract folder. This way the program knows to use the tesseract.exe from the installed location.

This is what my path looks like:

edited Jun 20 '18 at 18:57

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answered Jun 20 '18 at 18:51

Sulav Acharya

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 04 '17 at 11:18

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You can install tesseract by using below command

pip install tesseract

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answered Apr 06 '17 at 07:41

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It installs tesseract-0.1.3. But when I try to import tesseract it shows this error: SyntaxError: invalid syntax – Yogesh Awdhut Gadade Jul 26 '19 at 09:48

No module named tesseract

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