(-215:Assertion failed) !_src.empty() in function 'cv::cvtColor'

Question

I am trying to recognize text from an image to then have the text outputted; however, this error spits out:

Traceback (most recent call last):

Answer 1

This error occurs when the image is in one format and in the python program you specify other format.

Example:

File Path= /home/user/image.jpg

but in the python program you read the image as jpeg

img = cv.imread("image.jpeg")

Then you will be facing this error