In linux, how to install pytesseract for python 2.7, not for python 3?

Question

I'd like to install pytesseract in python2.7/dist-packages. I tried "pip install pytesseract". But it is installed in python3/dist-packages. Please help me.

Answer 1

pip is a small script that executes the pip package. You can do that yourself with the python of your choice using the -m option. Assuming your python 2.7 executable is python , you can

python -m pip install pytesseract

or

sudo -H python -m pip install pytesseract

if you want to install into system directories.