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Pytesseract No such file or directory error

First of all I did everything mentioned here pytesseract-no such file or directory error

Still doesn't work. Now I'm using Pycharm IDE with following code:

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
import subprocess

im = Image.open('test.png')
im.show()
subprocess.call(['tesseract','test.png','out'])
print pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test.png'))
  • im.show() opens the image successfully.
  • subprocess.call() with tesseract test.png out also extracts the text from the image..
  • but pytesseract.image_to_string() fails.

I don't get it. Why I am able to use tesseract in shell but not in python. And in python I can open same image but when used with tesseract Image can't be found.

Below you can see the error output.

 File "/home/hamza-c/Schreibtisch/Android/JioShare/orc.py", line 7, in <module>
    print pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('/home/hamza-c/Schreibtisch/Android/JioShare/test.png'))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 162, in image_to_string
    config=config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 95, in run_tesseract
    stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1340, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Solution

  • I solved my own question.

    im = Image.open('test.png')
print pytesseract.image_to_string(im)

    It's still unclear why it works when a reference is passed but not directly when I try to open image inside the parameter.