Tesseract SyntaxError:'Creating User Config File' Error

Question

I have recently installed the Tesseract module and found some tutorials, but there was not any solution on the internet which I comfronted. Here are the simple codes and the error:

from PIL import Image
from tesseract import image_to_string
a = Image.open('/Users/bob/Desktop/108.jpg')
b = image_to_string(a)
print(b)

Here is the error:

print 'Creating user config file: {}'.format(_config_file_usr)
                                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Here is the image: 108.png

Answer 1

Don't use from tesseract import image_to_string

Do pip install pytesseract and import pytesseract

Also, make sure you're assigning the .exe in your .py file like so:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract'

This answer goes into depth on how to do it correctly

and your program will need to be reworked from:

a = Image.open('/Users/bob/Desktop/108.jpg')
b = image_to_string(a)`

to

text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('/Users/bob/Desktop/108.jpg'))