I have installed Anaconda 2018.12 (Python 3.7 version). I am trying to test out the pytesseract module but I keep encountering:
TesseractNotFoundError: C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe is not installed or it's not in your path
I have done:
pip install Pillow (already installed it says)
pip install pytesseract (successful)
Tried to set the tesseract_cmd to the location of tesseract (but I can't find it)
I have searched for the tesseract.exe file but cannot find it anywhere on the system so I'm struggling to understand how do I reference/import the module into a jupyter notebook if it's already been consumed into anaconda?
The code I'm trying to run is:
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
#pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe"
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('C:\Temp\IMG_1519.jpg'))
print(text)
I'm hoping it's simple user error but any assistance would be gratefully received. Many thanks, Ben
Quoting from the PyPi page:
Python-tesseract is a wrapper for Google’s Tesseract-OCR Engine.
and (under prequisites):
Install Google Tesseract OCR (additional info how to install the engine on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows)
This means, that pytesseract is not a standalone module. It is a python wrapper for using the Google’s Tesseract-OCR Engine, which you need to install seperately
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I successfully ran the command:
pip install pymupdf
Successfully installed pymupdf-1.18.15
However, both
import fitz
and import pymupdf
both output an
ModuleNotFoundError.
Why is python giving me a ModuleNotFoundError?
According to PyMuPDF
Documentation
you need to download a wheel file that is specific to your platform
(e.g windows, mac, linux). The wheel files can be found on PyMuPDF
files.
Make sure to check the correct version of your python running on
your system python -V
Once downloaded place it at the root directory of your project.
Then run pip install PyMuPDF-<...>.whl replace PyMuPDF-<...>.whl
with the name of the wheel file you have downloaded in (1) above.
Now import fitz should be available in your module.
I have a problem when I use the pytesseract library with python
I'm on macOS Catalina 10.15.5
And I'm using an environment to run openCV Library and it works just fine, I installed pytesseract using homebrew using this command - with the environment active -:
brew install tesseract
and I checked the version of tesseract it shows v4.1.1
So I'm not sure where is the mess up
I made a Python script that does OCR, and then I recycled the script and made a web app using Flask. The web app and its libraries are in a virtualenv, but the app is using the Tesseract OCR that was installed in the OS (Windows). I've been testing it from the local server. Now it is time for deployment, and I don't know how to install Tesseract in the venv or if it is possible to install it on a server. I don't know if what I'm saying makes sense, but I'm very lost and I will really appreciate any help with this matter.
Thank you in advance.
This would depend on the operating system of the server which you're deploying to. If you're running in docker, this is the OS of the base image.
Most likely you'll install from from a pre-built binary.
Once you've installed, locate the binary. On linux use the command:
which tesseract
this will output something like:
/usr/bin/tesseract
Then in your application code, as per the usage instructions point pytesseract to this binary:
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'/usr/bin/tesseract'
If the problem you're facing is ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Image' even after installing Pillow, run:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install --upgrade Pillow
After that, you should be able to install pytesseract without errors.
My objective is to use OCR in Python 2.7 using Tesseract on a Windows 7 machine, but I am running into issues as for the installation process. I tried following the instruction here but the link to "tesseract-core-yyyymmdd.exe" and "tesseract-langs-yyyymmdd.exe" do not exist anymore and I can't find these .exe elsewhere online. Here's what I have done so far:
installed tesseract from its executable from official tesseract-ocr page.
installed via pip packages "wand", "PIL", "pyocr".
Now, if I do the following in Python:
from wand.image import Image
from PIL import Image as PI
import pyocr
import pyocr.builders
import io
No problem loading up these packages but pyocr.get_available_tools() gives me an empty list. I am sure this has to do with the missing installation .exe files above. Where can I find them? Is it something else that I am missing?
I just tried to set up pytesseract and it works ! I have windows 10 and python 2.7 installed.
all you need to do :
Download Visual basic C++ from http://aka.ms/vcpython27 and install it (common installation step)
Download tesseract from python via this link https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytesseract
Unizip the file.
Go to the directory which contains the unizip file
Run this command " python setup.py install "
(Additional) to test if it's installed, go to your python shell and run this command " import pytesseract "
I hope it works !! Note pytesseract is google based OCR, it works similarly to tesseract.
Step [1] To install tesseract kindly visit
https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
The latest installers can be downloaded from here:
e.g., tesseract-ocr-setup-3.05.02-20180621.exe, tesseract-ocr-w32-setup-v4.0.0-beta.1.20180608.exe, tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v4.0.0-beta.1.20180608.exe (64 bit)
Step [2] Download Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 from the link given below
https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/6/796EF2E4-801B-4FC4-AB28-B59FBF6D907B/VCForPython27.msi
Step [3] Install pytesseract for binding for tesseract using pip
pip install pytesseract
Step [4] Furthermore you can install an image processing library in python, e.g., pillow:
pip install pillow
greetings!! you are done!! :)
PIP is a package manager for Python packages
Open cmd run pip search "pytesseract", you can see latest version
Run pip install pytesseract for latest version or pip install pytesseract==0.3.0 for version you want.
In windows python cmd run import pytesseract for sure installed was successful.
Install both and you are done
Binaries from:
https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
Python Wrapper from here:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytesseract
I am running Python 2.7.1.1 with Anaconda2 4.0.0 64-bit on a Windows 7 machine. I'm trying to install Pillow for imaging, and after having read through every thread I could find, I am still unable to reach a solution. I have installed and uninstalled Pillow through various means including:
pip install Pillow
conda install Pillow
easy_install Pillow
I've gone to the Anaconda site-packages list and, lo and behold, the package for Pillow-3.2.0-py2.7.egg-info exists.
I've tried importing the package through both:
import Image
from PIL import Image
But I encounter the following ImportError:
from PIL import Image
ImportError: No module named PIL
I've already uninstalled the original PIL library that I tried to install to ensure that only the Pillow package exists. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
It sounds like Anaconda isn't playing nice with your system due to the fact that you have two interpreters installed (Anaconda's and Python 2.7.1.1). I would remove everything (Python, Anaconda, etc) and either reinstall Anaconda fresh, or the get the newest version of Python from python.org (2.7.12).
Personally, I'd go for the Python 2.7.12 from python.org (I've always had issues with prepackaged distros like Anaconda).
If you go that route, after your environment is clean I would make sure Pip is all up to date (pip install pip --upgrade) and then install Pillow from whl file provided by the University of California Irvine.
To do that, just go here:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
Download the Pillow whl file for Windows 64bit. Make sure Python is set up in your path and then just go to the directory where you downloaded Pillow and enter the following (replacing the filename with the one you downloaded):
pip install pillowfile.whl
good luck, and happy coding!
If you can't import a package into Python but it is definitely there in the site-packages folder, then you are more than likely running the wrong Python interpreter.
You can check this by running python from the command line and then entering:
import sys
sys.executable
That will return a string pointing to the current running Python interpreter.
Wrong Python
If that doesn't point to your Anaconda installation then you have a paths problem.
On windows you can set the PATH through My Computer / Properties / Advanced. Look at the Environment Variables and ensure that the Anaconda path string is before any other Python path (If the Anaconda path isn't there, then something is very messed up and you may want to simply re-install Anaconda).
Right Python
If the path returned by sys.executable is correct then the installation of Pillow must be broken somehow. You can try un-installing and then re-installing. As an absolute last-resort you could also try deleting the Pillow folder manually and re-installing it.