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

Try changing from tesseract import image_to_string to from .tesseract import image_to_string (with leading dot) — Dmitrii Z.
– Dmitrii Z., Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 7:50
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/esat/Desktop/Noting/Program/Code/OCR.py", line 2, in <module> from .tesseract import image_to_string ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'main.tesseract'; 'main' is not a package — antisycop
– antisycop, Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 13:54

Stephen · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-04 18:33:44Z

7

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'))

answered Jun 4, 2018 at 18:33

Stephen

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