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

The following three commands will do the needful :

sudo apt update
# This will update your packages
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
# This will install OCR
sudo apt install libtesseract-dev
# This will add it as development dependency