Error:ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Image'

Question

I am getting the following error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Image'

while running the below script for OCR:

import Image
from tesseract import image_to_string


print(image_to_string(Image.open('marlboro.png'), lang='eng'))

I am using Spider through Anaconda and have Pillow installed.

Answer 1

Have a look at the docs, where you can see some basic examples. In short: You need to specify that you are importing Image from PIL:

from PIL import Image

Answer 2

You should install pytesseract use pip (also see guide):

pip install pytesseract

and then:

from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import image_to_string

print(image_to_string(Image.open('marlboro.png'), lang='eng'))

or use python cross-platform module tesseract:

pip install tesseract

and use it as you have in your question:

from PIL import Image
from tesseract import image_to_string

print(image_to_string(Image.open('marlboro.png'), lang='eng'))