Pytesseract: FileNotFound

Question:

I have been having some problems with Pytesser using this code to test it:

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract

img = Image.open('pic.png')
img.load()
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
print(text)

Run on Python 3.4 in Windows

When run I get the error originating from the Pytesseract module:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:/Users/Gamer/Documents/Python/Bot/test.py", line 6, in <module>
      text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
   File "C:Python34libsite-packagespytesseractpytesseract.py", line 122, in image_to_string
      config=config)
File "C:Python34libsite-packagespytesseractpytesseract.py", line 46, in run_tesseract
   proc = subprocess.Popen(command, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "C:Python34libsubprocess.py", line 859, in __init__
   restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:Python34libsubprocess.py", line 1114, in _execute_child
   startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

I am new to installing modules and this may have originated from a bad install or setup of Tesseract-OCR or the module.

Any help will be greatly appreciated,

-Niall

Asked By: Niall Oswald

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Answers:

I didn’t have any issues with installing tesseract but I leveraged the Tesseract at UB Mannheim installer:

https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

You will also need to install pytesseract:

pip3.6 install pytesseract

It appears that Python is having an issue finding the location of the image. I would recommend using a variable set with the path to the image to rule out any PATH related issues. Here is an example:

#Path to image folder    
src_path = "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\OCR\"

#Run OCR on image    
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(src_path + "pic.png"))

#Print OCR result
print (text)
Answered By: Kethran

As ‘st0le’ commented it turned out it was the path for the OCR-Tesseract needed to be correctly defined, not the path of the image.

I thought I’d just clear this up for anyone else who has a similar problem as I have got this working now.

Answered By: Niall Oswald
  from PIL import Image
  import pytesseract

  img = Image.open('path/pic.png')
  img.load()
  text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
  print(text)

Include whole path to the image!!

Answered By: Aysha-Fathima