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How to solve error importing pytesseract - f"{tesseract_cmd} is not installed or it's not in your PATH."
The error message "f"{tesseract_cmd} is not installed or it's not in your PATH."" indicates that the pytesseract library is unable to locate the Tesseract OCR executable (tesseract_cmd
) on your system. To resolve this error, you can try the following steps:
Install Tesseract OCR: First, make sure you have Tesseract OCR installed on your system. You can download the installer from the Tesseract GitHub repository (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) or use a package manager specific to your operating system. Install Tesseract OCR following the instructions for your platform.
Set the Tesseract OCR executable path: After installing Tesseract OCR, you need to provide the path to the
tesseract
executable file to pytesseract. There are a few ways to do this:a. Specify the path in your code: Before importing
pytesseract
, set the path to thetesseract
executable using thepytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd
variable. For example:pythonimport pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\path\to\tesseract.exe'
b. Set the environment variable: Alternatively, you can set the
TESSDATA_PREFIX
environment variable to the directory containing thetesseract
executable. This will automatically be picked up by pytesseract. For example, in Windows, you can set the environment variable in your command prompt:swiftsetx TESSDATA_PREFIX "C:\path\to\tesseract"
Note: Make sure to restart your Python environment or terminal after setting the environment variable for it to take effect.
Verify the Tesseract OCR installation: After setting the executable path, verify that Tesseract OCR is working correctly. You can try running a simple OCR test using pytesseract:
pythonimport pytesseract
from PIL import Image
# Load an image using PIL
image = Image.open('path/to/image.png')
# Perform OCR
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(image)
# Print the recognized text
print(text)
If everything is set up correctly, pytesseract should be able to locate the Tesseract OCR executable and perform the OCR on the provided image.
By following these steps, you should be able to resolve the error and successfully import pytesseract.