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Cannot install tesserocr

I try running pip install tesserocr and I get the following error...

error: 'cinttypes' file not found #include // PRId32, ... ^~~~~~~~~~~ 1 error generated. error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Failed building wheel for tesserocr

I've searched the entire web. I even tried compiling the source code and then running pip install . but this gave me the exact same error. How can I fix this?

Solution

  • there are various questions like this topic. tesserocr is compiled during installation so you have to install also the development packages needed. Which these are depends on your OS distribution