No module named pytesseract error

Question

I am trying to use pytesseract for OCR, on a raspberry pi using Raspbian

I have read several questions on this topic, but can't find an answer that works, they usually say to install pytesseract with pip, and I did it.

my code is very simple:

import pytesseract
from PIL import Image
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test.jpg')))

But it returns error message : "ImportError: No module named 'pytesseract' .

I have installed tesseracrt-ocr (the whereis tesseract-ocr command returns /usr/share/tesseract-ocr)

I have installed pytesseract with pip install tesseract (which returns successfully installed Pillow-4.3.0 olefile-0.44 pytesseract-0.1.7 ... but the whereis pytesseract command does not return anything --> a problem?).

Do you have any idea of the problem I have ?

Are you using any virtual environment , because , once you have installed pytessract using command pip install pytesseract , import pytesseract should work . — coder3521, Nov 29 '17 at 12:13
Finally, I had also other problems. I reinstalled raspbian and everything works. But thanks for your help — droledenom, Nov 29 '17 at 16:38
Added the help as an answer to help other , U can accept if it helped — coder3521, Nov 29 '17 at 19:18
please check this as well https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34225927/pytesseract-cannot-find-the-file-specified — Nafeez Quraishi, Jan 03 '19 at 08:45

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 29 '17 at 19:17

See after installing pytesseract ,using

<cmd>C:\> pip install pytesseract

Try :

import pytesseract

If above is not working then it has do something with the installation , Check if pytesseract folder is available under "\Python27\Lib\site-packages" ,

Try the above command from site packages, Hope this helps , Else there is something wrong with installation .

rahul · Answer 2 · 2020-10-16T09:49:49.247

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Add this line in your code

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

set your path where tesseract-ocr is installed and also add this path to your window environment variable.Also check this link Tesseract installation for complete installation of tesseract.

edited Oct 16 '20 at 09:49

answered Oct 16 '20 at 07:30

rahul

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Could you explain a bit more why this line solves the issue? – mpSchrader Oct 16 '20 at 08:09
pytesseract does not work by only pip install. https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/ check this link for complete installation of tesseract.This line of code specify the path of tesseract ..if the path is not set it throws the error tesseract is not in the path. – rahul Oct 16 '20 at 09:40

No module named pytesseract error

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