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I tried to read text inside the image using pytesseract and openCV in pycharm editor(windows). It display image but when read the text it show error. Here is my code.

import cv2
import pytesseract

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract'
image = cv2.imread('test2.png')

image = cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
height,width,_ =image.shape
print(height,width)
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(image)) # ****

cv2.imshow('Output', image)
cv2.waitKey(0)

According to this code when I type and run

 print (pytesseract.image_to_string(image))

It showed error like follow.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Last Update\Uni of Mora\L4S1\FYP\new python project\HTMLCodeGenerator1\test detection.py", line 10, in <module>
    print(pytesseract.image_to_string(image))
  File "D:\Last Update\Uni of Mora\L4S1\FYP\new python project\HTMLCodeGenerator1\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 409, in image_to_string
    return {
  File "D:\Last Update\Uni of Mora\L4S1\FYP\new python project\HTMLCodeGenerator1\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 412, in <lambda>
    Output.STRING: lambda: run_and_get_output(*args),
  File "D:\Last Update\Uni of Mora\L4S1\FYP\new python project\HTMLCodeGenerator1\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 287, in run_and_get_output
    run_tesseract(**kwargs)
  File "D:\Last Update\Uni of Mora\L4S1\FYP\new python project\HTMLCodeGenerator1\venv\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 263, in run_tesseract
    raise TesseractError(proc.returncode, get_errors(error_string))
pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractError: (1, 'Error opening data file C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR/eng.traineddata Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to your "tessdata" directory. Failed loading language \'eng\' Tesseract couldn\'t load any languages! Could not initialize tesseract.')

I tried various ways. But it doesn't work. I changed the environment variable, download test data again but it doesn't work. How I solve this.

Nadeeshani Welgama
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I think your main problem is with TESSDATA_PREFIX not being in Env Variables

See this answer Pytesseract: Error opening data file \\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\en.traineddata

Abdul Rehman
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