Unicode Decode Error while reading text from image

Question

I have used this code to read text from an image file. Reading text from image

The code is as follows

from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import image_to_string

image = Image.open("image.jpg",'r')

myText = image_to_string(Image.open(open('maxresdefault.jpg')),config='-psm 10')
myText = image_to_string(Image.open(open('maxresdefault.jpg')))
print(myText)

Error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 278: character maps to

Tried to solve this error from following:UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte X in position Y: character maps to <undefined>

Then got error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

Check this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/49004993/5774004 — Sreeragh A R, Feb 27 '18 at 11:40
At what point are you getting this error? On the Image.open()? the image_to_string() ?? — Kingsley, May 18 '18 at 00:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '18 at 08:36

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As per Image documentation (help(Image.open)), the image files must be opened in the binary mode:

open('maxresdefault.jpg', 'rb')

answered Feb 12 '18 at 08:36

DYZ

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I am getting this error: ValueError: bad mode 'rb'. Just found that **Image** doesn't support 'rb' mode – Robin Feb 12 '18 at 09:28
The 'rb' flag must be passed to open(), not Image.open(). – DYZ Feb 12 '18 at 15:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 13 '19 at 15:21

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Load the Image in binary format.

Changing the following code solved the problem for me.

import PIL.Image
pil_image = PIL.Image.open(image_path, "rb")

Hope it helps !

answered Dec 13 '19 at 15:21

Ebin Zacharias

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Unicode Decode Error while reading text from image

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