How to import tesseract in python

Question

Trying to extract text from image using tesseract python.Have installed tesseract....

tesseract 4.1.0-rc1-21-g8e83  
leptonica-1.77.0   
libjpeg 6b : libpng 1.2.54 : zlib 1.2.8  
Found AVX2  
Found AVX  
Found SSE

But getting the below error when trying to import tesseract in python file

import tesseract

ImportError: No module named 'tesseract'

Answer 1

• Have you installed tesseract?
• Have you installed pytesseract?
• What code are you running?

Here's a tutorial on how to set up using pytesseract to use tesseract with python: https://www.linux.com/blog/using-tesseract-ubuntu