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 currently using Windows and needed to develop a PDF parser but adding a new environment variable via sysdm.cpl alone did not work. For other Windows user, I strongly suggest adding C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR to your profile.ps1 as well (if using Powershell that is).