Tesseract installation in windows

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I am currently working on optimal character recognition project using python 2.7,open computer vision in windows.To accomplish this task i came to know that it can be done by using tesseract (software).But, it cannot be installed on windows. I searched a lot but i could not get the solution. Can any one tell me is there any way of installing it on windows ?or can it be done without using it?

Have you searched on [GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)? — FabienP, Sep 10 '17 at 12:24

score 21 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 10 '22 at 20:07

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Simple steps for tesseract installation in windows.

Download tesseract exe from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki.
Install this exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR
Open virtual machine command prompt in windows or anaconda prompt.
Run pip install pytesseract
To test if tesseract is installed type in python prompt:

import pytesseract

print(pytesseract)

edited Mar 10 '22 at 20:07

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answered Oct 25 '20 at 08:42

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I had to install pytesseract instead – nanobot Sep 17 '21 at 19:38
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@Aashish Raina Please change `pip install tesseract` to `pip install pytesseract`. `tesseract` is some other unrelated package. – user1318499 Dec 05 '21 at 23:35

score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 06 '21 at 02:30

To accomplish OCR with Python on Windows, you will need Python and OpenCV which you already have, as well as Tesseract and the Pytesseract Python package.

To install Tesseract OCR for Windows:

Run the installer(find 2021) from UB Mannheim
Configure your installation (choose installation path and language data to include)
Add Tesseract OCR to your environment variables

To install and use Pytesseract on Windows:

Simply run pip install pytesseract
You will also need to install Pillow with pip install Pillow to use Pytesseract. Import it in your Python document like so from PIL import Image.
You will need to add the following line in your code in order to be able to call pytesseract on your machine: pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe'

I've given a detailed walkthrough of how to install Tesseract OCR for Windows here if you would like further guidance.

I thought this as well, but when I tried to execute the pytesseract script without the additional line of code to include the path, it didn't work despite having added the path to the PATH variable as you mentioned. — brad, May 28 '23 at 19:16

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 10 '17 at 12:41

UB Mannheim provide pre-built binaries for the latest versions of tesseract.

From tesseract Github wiki.

Windows

An unofficial installer for windows for Tesseract 3.05-dev and Tesseract 4.00-dev is available from Tesseract at UB Mannheim. This includes the training tools.

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To access tesseract-OCR from any location you may have to add the directory where the tesseract-OCR binaries are located to the Path variables, probably C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR.

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