tesseract python code example

Example 1: pytesseract tesseract is not installed

#1. Install tesseract using windows installer available at: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

#2. Note the tesseract path from the installation.Default installation path at the time the time of this edit was: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR. It may change so please check the installation path.

#3. pip install pytesseract

#4. Set the tesseract path in the script before calling image_to_string:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

Example 2: pytesseract

pip install pytesseract

Example 3: text recognition python library

import cv2 
import pytesseract

img = cv2.imread('image.jpg')

# Adding custom options
custom_config = r'--oem 3 --psm 6'
pytesseract.image_to_string(img, config=custom_config)