I want to use tesseract, and in turn pytesseract, but I don't want to include a GPLv3-licensed package before I know what I plant to do with my project.

Has any consideration been given to using a more permissive license such as MIT? Tesseract uses Apache 2.0, which is a fairly permissive license as well.

I've installed tesseract and pytesseract, and I keep getting error messages <redacted_image_to_hide_username> even after I changed the path of "tesseract_cmd" in pytesseract.py, reinstalled tesseract using homebrew, and added the line "pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = '/usr/local/bin/tesseract'" in my python file. I can get the version of my pytesseract using line "print(pytesseract.get_tesseract_version())". Since I can acquire the version of pytesseract, I don't know why the path issue still exists. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help!

Hi, I am using pytesseract 0.2.0, the version with the latest commit.

I am getting the following error when using pytesseract.image_to_data

Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 20, in image2text(images) File "test.py", line 9, in image2text data = pytesseract.image_to_data(image, lang=None, config='', nice=0, output_type=pytesseract.Output.DICT) File "/home/mehul/.virtualenvs/cv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 228, in image_to_data run_and_get_output(image, 'tsv', lang, config, nice), '\t', -1) File "/home/mehul/.virtualenvs/cv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 142, in run_and_get_output with open(filename, 'rb') as output_file: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tess_OAlhmD_out.tsv'

Either the temp file is not created or program is searching for wrong temp file.

When I run image_to_string, it works great, but when I run either image_to_boxes or image_to_data, I get an error message like this:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\users\tlcyr\appdata\local\temp\tess_kqx1fs_out.box'

with some random text in place of 'kqx1fs' each time I run it.

I have tesseract 3.05.01 installed on Windows.

I am using pytesseract on windows 10 x64, and the python is 3.5.2 x64, Tesseract is 4.0 ,the code is as follow:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

try:
    import Image
except ImportError:
    from PIL import Image
import pytesseract


print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('d:/testimages/name.gif'), lang='chi_sim'))

error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/test.py", line 10, in <module>
    print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('d:/testimages/name.gif'), lang='chi_sim'))
  File "C:\Users\dell\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 165, in image_to_string
    raise TesseractError(status, errors)
pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractError: (1, 'Error opening data file \\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tessdata/chi_sim.traineddata')

C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata,like this:

[]1

I use image_to_string for single digits but additionally I want to obtain the confidence value. Therefore I replaced it with image_to_data like this:

ocrResult = pytesseract.image_to_data(digitBinary, config='-psm 10 -c tessedit_char_whitelist=0123456789', output_type="dict")
digitasNumber = ocrResult["text"][0]

With image_to_string the results are reasonably good. With image_to_data every text dict entry is empty but for one case, where it returns two digits. the empty digits have conf -1 and the digit where text is filled the conf is 6.

I don't think that this is intended behavior.

I have been using this python wrapper for tesseract on a video feed with opencv in order to extract time series data into csv files. I am trying to track 40 different windows. However, on the 201st frame of the test video I have, I get the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 219, in run_tesseract
    proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd_args, **subprocess_args())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 775, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1412, in _execute_child
    errpipe_read, errpipe_write = os.pipe()
OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bars_and_windows.py", line 54, in <module>
    bar_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(tmp_img, lang='SF_Upper')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 341, in image_to_string
    }[output_type]()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 340, in <lambda>
    Output.STRING: lambda: run_and_get_output(*args),
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 249, in run_and_get_output
    run_tesseract(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 221, in run_tesseract
    raise TesseractNotFoundError()
pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractNotFoundError: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path

I was originally writing to 40 different csv files simultaneously. After completely removing my file writing/reading code, this error still persisted and triggered on the exact same frame of the video every time. I also tested with a different video and ran into the same exception after only 25 frames. This leads me to believe this is a bug/limitation in pytesseract. Has anyone else run into a similar issue and been able to come up with a solution/work around?

My setup: Linux Kernel: 5.1.16-arch1-1-ARCH python-pytesseract-git package installed from aur Python 3.7.3-2

Look mama, no config files!

I was wrestling with config files for some of the settings when I ran across this google group discussion about tesseract using java and it made my mouth water. Here's a code snippet from their discussion:

tesseract = new Tesseract();                      
tesseract.setOcrEngineMode(TessAPI.TessOcrEngineMode.OEM_TESSERACT_ONLY);
tesseract.setPageSegMode(7);
tesseract.setTessVariable("load_system_dawg", "0");
tesseract.setTessVariable("load_freq_dawg", "0");
tesseract.setTessVariable("load_punc_dawg", "0");
tesseract.setTessVariable("load_number_dawg", "0");

At first you may think, well that's cool I guess but you can really do the same thing by just defining a long string of configs and calling it whenever you need it. For example, '--psm 10 --oem 3 -c load_system_dawg=0 load_freq_dawg=0 load_punc_dawg=0 . . .'

In the tesseract documentation, it mentions that you can't change 'init only' parameters with tesseract executable option -c. And those 'init only' parameters would include some of the ones I've been messing with. I think that most people would say that it would be nice to be able to set your variables for your config file directly in python using a set_config_variable method instead of having to go make a config file. Since some of the variables that are being set in the code above are in fact 'init only', the Java guys must be creating a config file (I did not sniff through their code to verify this, however) from java code.

I haven't done it yet because I'm not too familiar with the code inside pytesseract, but right now making a temporary config file and letting it be loadable via a set_config_variable method doesn't seem very hard from my perspective. Here's the high level logic I'm thinking about:

• When pytesseract is imported, check the config folder to see if a temp.txt file exists. If so, wipe it clean. If not, create one.
• When someone calls the tsr.set_config_variable method, just write the variable, a space, and the value on a new line in the temp.txt file.
• You could also have a method to delete the variable from the file and thus return tesseract to the default.
• When any of the OCR functions are called, if the user does not manually supply another config file, use the temp.txt as the config file unless it's empty.

Why this would be a good feature:

• For me and others like me who wrote their first line of code 8 months ago, even little trips to the back-end of config files or source code can be confusing and take lot's of time.
• There's a lot of super ridiculously lazy people out there just like me who would rather not know anything about how the programs and libraries work which they're using, but just want to use them to make other interesting applications.

But maybe it's actually not very easy to implement. Is this actually possible?

Running pytesseract on Raspbian, python 2.7, tesseract 4.00 (4.00.00dev-625-g9c2fa0d).

My code is as follows:

ret = image_to_string(im,lang='eng',boxes=False, config="-psm 0")

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/Vocable/TESTING.py", line 114, in <module>
    ret = image_to_string(im,lang='eng',boxes=False, config="-psm 0")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 126, in image_to_string
    f = open(output_file_name, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tess_lN5JlN.txt'

If I run code with psm 1 [Recognition with OSD], I receive no errors but the upside down text is simply treated as right-side-up text, producing garbage results. (This was tested on an inverted test.png)

Essentially text recognition works but OSD does not.

I am trying to get pytesseract to run on a Windows 10 system but unfortunately always get the following error log:

  File "C:\Users\Marc\PycharmProjects\test\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 27, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Marc\PycharmProjects\test\main.py", line 15, in <module>
    import pytesseract
  File "C:\Users\Marc\PycharmProjects\test\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .pytesseract import ALTONotSupported
  File "C:\Users\Marc\PycharmProjects\test\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 29, in <module>
    import Image
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Image'

Process finished with exit code 1

Hello guys,

Although I update to pytesseract v0.1.8, it cannot do ocr on JPN image still.
However, if I manually set command to following, it can works.

(but program will crash after that because I change the file path. It doesn't matter for now.)

def run_tesseract(input_filename, ...):
    ...
    if not sys.platform.startswith('win32') and nice != 0:
        command  += ('nice', '-n', str(nice))
    +input_filename = "<my src img path>\\src.png"
    +output_filename_base = "<my src img path>\\output.log"
    command += (tesseract_cmd, input_filename, output_filename_base)
   ...

I change src_img path to absolute path for my src file and save the log to absolute location.

In the original code, I cannot get anything from tesseract ocr. If I change src_img to absolute path without modified output.log part, it will get part of result.(some jpn word have lost.)

If I cange src_img and modified output together, all things work well. (but program will crash after that because I change the file path.)

Please see my result in following drive:

https://goo.gl/pej1Nz

There are three output result, src image and jpn.traindata. The jpn.traindata need to place under tesseract tessdata directory.

Regards, Moonlove

hello,iam using subprocess,when i sent request through postman using local server ,subprocess is working,but when im sending request using iis server ,subprocess is not working

The issue reporting process currently seems to be suboptimal, as basic information is missing and there appear to be mostly reports about stuff which we cannot do anything about due to the failure being in Tesseract itself.

For this reason I would like to propose to provide a template for reporting (possible) bugs, which at least requests the used Python version, OS, Tesseract version and the reproducing code example, accompanied with the actual and expected results.

Additionally, it probably makes sense to provide easier access to cmd_args in run_tesseract, as we currently have to either monkey-patch subprocess.Popen or edit the installed module directly. One solution would be to just use debug logging for it, basically allowing the user to just set the log level for the pytesseract logger to test the command with plain Tesseract. This log level setting could be added as a remark inside the bug reporting template as well to avoid additional requests imposing an overhead for us.

File "C:\Users\Castel\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 264, in run_tesseract
    raise TesseractError(proc.returncode, get_errors(error_string))
pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractError: (3221225477, '')

Print screen:

Hi, I'm working on a Fedora 32 distro with tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201224 and pytesseract Version: 0.3.10.

when I call this function image_to_string(image, lang="letsgodigital", config="--oem 4 --psm 100 -c tessedit_char_whitelist=.0123456789") I received this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main2.py", line 8, in <module>
    str_Res = digital_display_ocr.ocr_image(image)
  File "/home/fili/workspace/python/digit_recognition/digital_display_ocr.py", line 107, in ocr_image
    return image_to_string(otsu_thresh_image, lang="letsgodigital", config="--oem 4 --psm 100 -c tessedit_char_whitelist=.0123456789")
  File "/home/fili/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 423, in image_to_string
    return {
  File "/home/fili/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 426, in <lambda>
    Output.STRING: lambda: run_and_get_output(*args),
  File "/home/fili/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 290, in run_and_get_output
    with open(filename, 'rb') as output_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] File o directory non esistente: '/tmp/tess_4p1bawg8.txt'

How can I resolve this?

I am getting the following error when trying to import pytesseract:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pytesseract'

I am using windows 11 and I made sure to have tesseract in my path and it works when I call it directly from the command prompt. I am using python > 3.6 like it says in the instructions.