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Tesseract installation in Google colaboratory

I have installed tesseract in Google colab using the command

!pip install tesseract

But when I run the command 

text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('cropped_img.png'))

I get the below error:

TesseractNotFoundError: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path

Solution

  • Add pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'/usr/local/bin/pytesseract'

    This should solve the TesseractNotFoundError.