Get text from image

Question

I need to use pytesseract to extract text from this picture: enter image description here

However, i used pytesseract. It wont work.Here is my code:

try:
    import Image
except ImportError:
    from PIL import Image
import pytesseract

print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('1.png')))

Make sure that you have downloaded tesseract and setup your system to run that properly. pytesseract depend on tesseract — jlaur, Jul 11 '17 at 07:41
Yes, i have downloaded tesseract and its running properly. Actually its printing nothing and sorry for said error. — GMB, Jul 11 '17 at 08:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '17 at 07:31

you have to install textract using this we can extract text from any extension.

# some python file
import textract
text = textract.process("path/to/file.extension")

you can provide file as image or pdf or any docs. for your code

text = textract.process("1.png")

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