Error in PYTHON OCR Tesseract

Question

When running my python OCR script from CMD, I get this error. Is it a problem with the picture or my code??

error log

D:\Documents\Everything Programming\_Not Hacking\Bots\Discord Bots\python img recog>imgrecog.py
  File "D:\Documents\Everything Programming\_Not Hacking\Bots\Discord Bots\python img recog\imgrecog.py", line 3
    print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('C:\Users\[MY NAME]\Desktop\letrs.jpg')))
                                                ^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

code

import pytesseract
from PIL import Image

print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('C:\Users\[MY NAME]\Desktop\letrs.jpg')))

Answer 1

Use slashes / instead of backslashes \\ and you should be fine. Your main problem es de folder , \\Users which is trying to be interpreted because of the \\U . So just stay away from backslashes when coding and your code should work. Other solution is to put double backslash like '\\\\Users' but why bother.