How do I resolve a TesseractNotFoundError?

Question

I am trying to use pytesseract in Python but I always end up with the following error:

    raise TesseractNotFoundError()
pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractNo         


        

Answer 1

I'm running on a Mac OS and installed tesseract with brew so here's my take on this. Since pytesseract is just how you can access tesseract from python, you have to specify where tesseract is already on your computer.

For Mac OS

Try finding where the tesseract.exe is- if you installed it using brew, on your the terminal use:

>brew list tesseract

This should list where your tesseract.exe is, somewhere more or less like

> /usr/local/Cellar/tesseract/3.05.02/bin/tesseract

Then following their instructions:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r''

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'/usr/local/Cellar/tesseract/3.05.02/bin/tesseract'

should do the trick!