Answers for "pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractError: (2, 'Usage: pytesseract [-l lang] input_file')"

pytesseract tesseract is not installed

#1. Install tesseract using windows installer available at: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

#2. Note the tesseract path from the installation.Default installation path at the time the time of this edit was: C:UsersUSERAppDataLocalTesseract-OCR. It may change so please check the installation path.

#3. pip install pytesseract

#4. Set the tesseract path in the script before calling image_to_string:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:UsersUSERAppDataLocalTesseract-OCRtesseract.exe'

pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractError: (2, 'Usage: pytesseract [-l lang] input_file')

#Install tesseract using installer which is available at: 
#https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
#install pytesseract using the folling command
#pip install pytesseract
#when every thing is ready
#set the tesseract path in the script
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:UsersUSERAppDataLocalTesseract-OCRtesseract.exe'

pytesseract

pip install pytesseract

pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractNotFoundError: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your PATH. See README file for more information.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt install libtesseract-dev