I know this question has already been answered on this site, however, none of the solutions I looke up the internet seemed to work. Here's what I tried:
Giving all permissions to my python file
Changing PATH variable to point to my tesseract folder
Running IDLE as administrator and then executing the file from there
This error is quite bothering me now and I can't advance any further because of it.
Here's my code if that's going to help:
import pytesseract
import sys
import argparse
try:
import Image
except ImportError:
from PIL import Image
from subprocess import check_output
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR'
c=pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('img.png'))
print(c)
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Hp\Desktop\bot.py", line 12, in <module>
c=pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('captcha.png'))
File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 122, in image_to_string
config=config)
File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 46, in run_tesseract
proc = subprocess.Popen(command, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "C:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 707, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 992, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Accès refusé
I encountered same problem, and I fixed it as 0xc0de said, change the below line:
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd=r"C:\MyApps\Tesseract-ocr\"
to:
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd="C:\\MyApps\\Tesseract-ocr\\tesseract.exe"
I suspect a few things, not sure about any though.
First and the most obvious, the path to Tesseract is not complete. It should be something like:
tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract'
I believe your path points to a directory/folder and not an executable, though only you can confirm that. Let me know if this is incorrect, I see something else too that doesn't seem right at first, but needs more investigation.
Use this to read the tesseract path and also make sure that you have installed the Tesseract- OCR
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\\\Program Files (x86)\\\Tesseract-OCR\\\tesseract.exe'
using always double \\ instead of a single "\"
You need to install tesseract separately. I am providing the link from where you should install
https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
tesseract-ocr-w32-setup-v5.0.0-alpha.20201127.exe (32 bit) and
tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5.0.0-alpha.20201127.exe (64 bit) resp.
choose here according to your system config. most of us have 64 bit. so choose that.
Install the file very carefully. I Would suggest doing it in a separate drive other than c.
take the path where you have install the tesseract.exe file. and paste it at pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd
look the code...
import cv2
import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'E:/OCR/tesseract_install/tesseract.exe'
img = cv2.imread('E:/OCR/example1.png')
# to see the image below codes are there
cv2.imshow('sampleimage',img)
#enter any key to destroy the image window opened due to previous line code
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
#convert image to text using tesseract
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
print(text)
I had this issues pretty consistent, and I fix it without any access change.
The trick is:
1: You need to install tesseract and remember where is path to tesseract.exe file.
2: Then install pytesseract on exect environment you going to use it using pip install pytesseract
3: Do not add any Path to your System Env variables, it will mess up with everything.
4: CLEARLY define path to image file, or even better if image will be in closest/the same directory where is your python code.
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd=r'C:/Users/your_name/AppData/Local/Programs/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract'
#this path to image
path = r'C:\Users\irina_max\Documents\Python_Scripts\Invoice 1.jpg'
image= Image.open(path)
image
Install the tesseract exe in a directory inside your project. I did the above and it worked fine, without giving Win 5 error.
Related
VsCode gives me this error:
PS D:\leomu\Documents\Python projects\Bots> &
C:/Python/Python39/python.exe "d:/leomu/Documents/Python
projects/Bots/verify.py"
File "d:\leomu\Documents\Python projects\Bots\verify.py", line 4, in <module>
img = Image.open("D:\leomu\Documents\Python projects\Bots\FototsChat") File
"C:\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 2904, in
open
fp = builtins.open(filename, "rb") PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'D:\\leomu\\Documents\\Python
projects\\Bots\\FototsChat'
when running this:
import pytesseract, time
from PIL import Image
img = Image.open("D:\leomu\Documents\Python projects\Bots\FototsChat")
text = pytesseract.image_to_string("img")
print(text)
The problem is that you are trying to load a file which is protected and cant be openened/changed by non admin users. To fix that, it depends what OS you are on
For windows users:
Open the terminal/your IDE as administrator and that should do the trick.
For linux/mac users:
Open run put sudo before your command to run the program.
Edit: i read the question better and realised the path to the image points to either a file without extension (like .png) or a folder (i suspect its a folder).
So if you are trying to open the file 'test.png' from within that folder, just do something like 'D:\leomu\Documents\Python projects\Bots\FototsChat\test.png'
This is the error I am getting:
OS Error: Ghostscript not found on paths
When running the following function:
from PIL import Image
def convert_ps_to_png(ps_file):
img = Image.open(ps_file)
img = Image.save("file.png")# Error occurs on this line
convert_ps_to_png(ps_file_path)
Any solutions would be appreciated. The end goal is to convert a .ps file to a .png file through a script.
As per the answers to your previous questions, you need to have Ghostscript installed, and available in the system environment variable $PATH.
So I am currently trying to use Tesseract (pytesseract wrapper) in Python 3.5. Now Im at the office so my guess is that there are some goofy permissions not set and thats why I get this error trying to run some pretty simple code. Now I do have admnin permissions on this machine and can change file permissions... any idea what I can do to get this to run?
If anything it will help me wrap my head around system permissions in general as I work with different OS.
import pytesseract
from PIL import Image
test = Image.open('test.png')
print (pytesseract.image_to_string(test))
Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec 6 2015, 01:38:48) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>>
========= RESTART: C:\Users\dmartin\CheckScanScript\TextFromImage.py =========
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dmartin\CheckScanScript\TextFromImage.py", line 4, in <module>
print (pytesseract.image_to_string(test))
File "C:\Users\dmartin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 161, in image_to_string
config=config)
File "C:\Users\dmartin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 94, in run_tesseract
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "C:\Users\dmartin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 950, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\dmartin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1220, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied
I've had same problem. I solved this. First you must add path C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\ in environment variables. Second I noticed if my code in differen disk, programm can't load language from folder tessdata. So I move my code from Disk D to Disk C, and it's finally work.
I faced this same issue and adding complete path for the pytesseract executable has worked for me. So , if you have installed pytesseract in your "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract" make sure in your code you are adding below path:-
C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract\tesseract.exe
Your code would look like below
tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract\\tesseract.exe'
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = tesseract_cmd
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test.png')))
Hope this works for you too.
I solved it by give Permission to the file by code:
import stat
import os
os.chmod("file",stat.S_IRUSR|stat.S_IRGRP|stat.S_IROTH|stat.S_IXUSR|stat.S_IRUSR|stat.S_IWUSR|stat.S_IWGRP|stat.S_IXGRP)
os.remove("file")
I had the same issue and I resolved it by running IDLE as an Administrator and then opening the .py file thru IDLE.
Run Python or Python IDE as Admin and Set tesseract_cmd, pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd, TESSDATA_PREFIX and tessdata_dir_config as follows:
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
tesseract_cmd = 'D:\\Softwares\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract'
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'D:\\Softwares\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract'
TESSDATA_PREFIX= 'D:\Softwares\Tesseract-OCR'
tessdata_dir_config = '--tessdata-dir "D:\\Softwares\\Tesseract-OCR\\tessdata"'
print(pytesseract.image_to_string( Image.open('D:\\ImageProcessing\\f2.jpg'), lang='eng', config=tessdata_dir_config))
For me what fixed it was inserting the direct path to tesseract.exe
What it looks like for me is:
import pyautogui
from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import *
pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'
Note that you will have to find the path yourself!
I had the same error. For me, it turned out the file mentioned in the (access denied) error was still held by the system in the background from previous run. I ended the process in the Task Manager of Windows and problem solved.
Hi I am trying the python library pytesseract to extract text from image.
Please find the code:
from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import image_to_string
print image_to_string(Image.open(r'D:\new_folder\img.png'))
But the following error came:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 161, in image_to_string
config=config)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 94, in run_tesseract
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 958, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
I did not found a specific solution to this. Can anyone help me what to do. Anything more to be downloaded or from where i can download it etc..
Thanks in advance :)
I had the same trouble and quickly found the solution after reading this post:
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory using pytesser
Just need to adapt it to Windows, replace the following code:
tesseract_cmd = 'tesseract'
with:
tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract'
(need double \\ to escape first \ in the string)
You're getting exception because subprocess isn't able to find the binaries (tesser executable).
The installation is a 3 step process:
1.Download/Install system level libs/binaries:
For various OS here's the help. For MacOS you can directly install it using brew.
Install Google Tesseract OCR (additional info how to install the
engine on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows). You must be able to invoke the
tesseract command as tesseract. If this isn’t the case, for example
because tesseract isn’t in your PATH, you will have to change the
“tesseract_cmd” variable at the top of tesseract.py. Under
Debian/Ubuntu you can use the package tesseract-ocr. For Mac OS users.
please install homebrew package tesseract.
For Windows:
An installer for the old version 3.02 is available for Windows from
our download page. This includes the English training data. If you
want to use another language, download the appropriate training data,
unpack it using 7-zip, and copy the .traineddata file into the
'tessdata' directory, probably C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata.
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.
Can download the .exe from here.
2.Install Python package
pip install pytesseract
3.Finally, you need to have tesseract binary in you PATH.
Or, you can set it at run-time:
import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = '<path-to-tesseract-bin>'
For Windows:
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract'
The above line will make it work temporarily, for permanent solution add the tesseract.exe to the PATH - such as PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR".
Beside that make sure that TESSDATA_PREFIX Windows environment variable is set to the directory, containing tessdata directory. For example:
TESSDATA_PREFIX=C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR
i.e. tessdata location is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata
Your example:
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract'
print pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(r'D:\new_folder\img.png'))
You need Tesseract OCR engine ("Tesseract.exe") installed in your machine. If the path is not configured in your machine, provide complete path in pytesseract.py(tesseract.py).
README
Install Google Tesseract OCR (additional info how to install the engine on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows). You must be able to invoke the tesseract command as tesseract. If this isn't the case, for example because tesseract isn't in your PATH, you will have to change the "tesseract_cmd" variable at the top of tesseract.py. Under Debian/Ubuntu you can use the package tesseract-ocr. For Mac OS users. please install homebrew package tesseract.
Another thread
I have also faced the same problem regarding pytesseract.
I would suggest you to work in linux environment, to solve such errors.
Do the following commands in linux:
pip install pytesseract
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pytesseract-ocr
Hope this will do the work..
I am using python 3.x and using the following code to convert image into text:
from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import image_to_string
image = Image.open('image.png', mode='r')
print(image_to_string(image))
I am getting the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/hp/Desktop/GII/Image_to_text.py", line 12, in <module>
print(image_to_string(image))
File "C:\Users\hp\Downloads\WinPython-64bit-3.5.1.2\python-3.5.1.amd64\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 161, in image_to_string
config=config)
File "C:\Users\hp\Downloads\WinPython-64bit-3.5.1.2\python-3.5.1.amd64\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 94, in run_tesseract
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "C:\Users\hp\Downloads\WinPython-64bit-3.5.1.2\python-3.5.1.amd64\lib\subprocess.py", line 950, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\hp\Downloads\WinPython-64bit-3.5.1.2\python-3.5.1.amd64\lib\subprocess.py", line 1220, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
Please note that I have put the image in the same directory where my python is present. Also It does not raise error on image = Image.open('image.png', mode='r') but it raises on the line print(image_to_string(image)).
Any idea what might be wrong here? Thanks
You have to have tesseract installed and accesible in your path.
According to source, pytesseract is merely a wrapper for subprocess.Popen with tesseract binary as a binary to run. It does not perform any kind of OCR itself.
Relevant part of sources:
def run_tesseract(input_filename, output_filename_base, lang=None, boxes=False, config=None):
'''
runs the command:
`tesseract_cmd` `input_filename` `output_filename_base`
returns the exit status of tesseract, as well as tesseract's stderr output
'''
command = [tesseract_cmd, input_filename, output_filename_base]
if lang is not None:
command += ['-l', lang]
if boxes:
command += ['batch.nochop', 'makebox']
if config:
command += shlex.split(config)
proc = subprocess.Popen(command,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
return (proc.wait(), proc.stderr.read())
Quoting another part of source:
# CHANGE THIS IF TESSERACT IS NOT IN YOUR PATH, OR IS NAMED DIFFERENTLY
tesseract_cmd = 'tesseract'
So quick way of changing tesseract path would be:
import pytesseract
pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = "/absolute/path/to/tesseract" # this should be done only once
pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
You need to download tesseract OCR setup as well. Use this link to download the setup:http://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/tesseract-ocr-setup-3.05.01.exe
Then, include this line in your code to use tesseract executable:
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract'
This is the default location where tesseract will be installed.
That's it. I have also followed these steps to run the code at my end.
Hope this will help.
Please install the Below packages for extracting text from images pnf/jpeg
pip install pytesseract
pip install Pillow
using python pytesseract OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the process of electronically extracting text from images
PIL is used anything from simply reading and writing image files to scientific image processing, geographical information systems, remote sensing, and more.
from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import image_to_string
print(image_to_string(Image.open('/home/ABCD/Downloads/imageABC.png'),lang='eng'))
Your "current" directory is not where you think.
==> You may specify the full path to the image, for example:
image = Image.open(r'C:\Users\hp\Downloads\WinPython-64bit-3.5.1.2\python-3.5.1.amd64\image.png', mode='r')
You can try using this python library: https://github.com/prabhakar267/ocr-convert-image-to-text
As mentioned on the README of the package, usage is very straightforward.
usage: python main.py [-h] input_dir [output_dir]
positional arguments:
input_dir
output_dir
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit