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Asked: 2020-12-10T22:49:24+00:00 In:

How do I resolve a TesseractNotFoundError?

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I am trying to use pytesseract in Python but I always end up with the following error:

    raise TesseractNotFoundError()
pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractNotFoundError: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path

However, pytesseract and Tesseract are installed on my system.

Example code that produces this error:

import cv2
import pytesseract

img = cv2.imread('1d.png')
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(img))

How do I resolve this TesseractNotFoundError?

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    1. Kenil Vasani

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      I got this error because I installed pytesseract with pip but forget to install the binary.

      On Linux

      sudo apt update
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt install libtesseract-dev

      On Mac

      brew install tesseract

      On Windows

      download binary from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki. then add pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe' to your script. (replace path of tesseract binary if necessary)

      references:
      https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/ (INSTALLATION section) and
      https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki#installation

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