pytesseract-no such file or directory error

Question

I am using Ubuntu 14.04. I have the following code:

import Image
import pytesseract
im = Image.open(\'test.png\')
print pytesseract.image_to_string(im)


        

Answer 1

You need to install tesseract-ocr:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Answer 2

If you're on windows and have PIP installed go to your project directory and run:

pip install tesseract-ocr

Answer 3

Based off of @padraic cunningham's answer which I tailored to my setting.

If you are on Linux (ubuntu 16, should not matter) and have a conda installation:

First search for what you need to be installing:

$ anaconda search -t conda tesserocr

You will get a few options, you need to look at the platforms and builds to identify what makes sense for you.

As I have python 3.6 and linux-64 I chose mcs07/tesserocr

To install:

$ conda install -c mcs07 tesserocr

That's it. I didn't need a restart of the terminal or anything. I just kept going.