Installing pytesser on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I want to use pytesser OCR and I would like to make same changes in the system so that I can import it as a module from anywhere in the system. I tried using advice given on ( Installing pytesser ) but It's not working for me.

Answer 1

you can use

pip install pytesseract

You should use PIL to open an image and feed pytesseract. PIL, is short for Python Image Library. Just a image library.

pytesseract is a wrapper of tesseract.

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract 
im = Image.open('/home/xxxxxxx/Downloads/img.jpg')
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(im)
print (text)