OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory using pytesser

Question

This is my problem, I want to use pytesser to get a picture\'s contents. My operating system is Mac OS 10.11, and I have already installed PIL, pytesser, tesseract-ocr engin

Answer 1

Luckily, I solved this one.

At first, I run the command

pip install pytesseract

to install the package.

But I get the error message of 'No such file or directory using pytesser'.

Then I read this link: image_to_string doesn't work in Mac So, just run the following script:

brew link libtiff 
brew link libpng 
brew link jpeg
brew install tesseract

Worked for me ~

Answer 2

I had the same problem, but i managed to convert image to string. using apt-get should do the trick:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

and if you can't use it in a python script just do this:

from os import system

system("tesseract -l eng /image.png text.txt")

Answer 3

I run into the same problem twice, for both MacOS and Ubuntu. This worked with me. Hoping it can help.

First, open Terminal, then:

• Ubuntu: run "sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr"
• MacOS: run "brew install tesseract". If you can not use "brew", run this command first then try again: "ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Answer 4

You need to install tesseract-ocr:

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

And in the script

    from PIL import Image
    import os
    import pytesseract

    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(os.path.abspath('test.png')))

Answer 5

Open file pytesseract.py.

Mine is in /Users/yourUser/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py

Change tesseract_cmd = 'tesseract' to tesseract_cmd = '/usr/local/bin/tesseract'

Answer 6

This might not be the case for everybody but I was having a similar issue and it was due to getting errors when installing tesseract. I kept getting the error message:

Making install in ccutil
/bin/sh: /Applications/Xcode: No such file or directory
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

This was due to me having previously renamed /Applications/Xcode to /Applications/Xcode 8 in order to make it easier for myself to distinguish between different Xcode versions installed on my system.

I temporarily renamed it back to /Applications/Xcode then ran the command

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app

Then finally tried to reinstall tesseract and thankfully got no error messages this time.

brew install tesseract --all-languages

Now Python code runs fine and I get no "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory" error message.