TesseractNotFoundError: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your PATH. See README file for more information. site:stackoverflow.com 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.pytesseract.TesseractNotFoundError: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your PATH. See README file for more information.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt install libtesseract-dev