Install Tesseract On Windows 10

Posted : admin | On 19-04-2021



Tesseract.exe was initially released with FreeOCR 5.4.1 on for the Windows 10 Operating System. On, version 3,2,0,0 was released for Subtitle Edit 3.5.9. Tesseract.exe is packaged with Subtitle Edit 3.5.9, 123 PDF Converter 4.1, and FreeOCR 5.4.1. How to install tesseract-ocr on windows10. Download the setup from the link (wait until the process is complete. Tesseract is an open source OCR or optical character recognition engine and command line program. OCR is a technology that allows for the recognition of text characters within a digital image. With the latest version of Tesseract, there is a greater focus on line recognition, however it still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine which.

Tesseract documentation View on GitHub Tesseract User Manual. This user manual is for Tesseract versions 4.x.x and 5.0.0.x. For versions 3.05.02 and older, see the documentation for old versions. Tesseract is an open source text recognition (OCR) Engine, available under the Apache 2.0 license. The current official release is 4.1.1. For Windows: Installer for Windows for Tesseract 3.05 and Tesseract 4 are available from Tesseract at UB Mannheim. These include the training tools. Both 32-bit and 64-bit installers are available. An installer for the OLD version 3.02 is available for Windows from our download page. This includes the English training data.


'TesseractNotFoundError : tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path'
Pip install tesseract windows 10
In order to execute Tesseract on Windows 7, we have to follow below steps in below sequences:

1. Install Python in C folder (Custom option) under Python3.6 Folder.
Latest version has some issues and later create issues, preferred one as on date of this post would be Python 3.6 version


Adding Python and PythonPath to the Windows environment:


  1. Open Explorer.
  2. Right-click 'Computer' in the Navigation Tree Panel on the left.
  3. Select 'Properties' at the bottom of the Context Menu.
  4. Select 'Advanced system settings'
  5. Click 'Environment Variables...' in the Advanced Tab


PY_HOME

%PY_HOME%Lib;%PY_HOME%DLLs;%PY_HOME%Liblib-tk;C:another-library
Append

Windows2. Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required
  1. Go to Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017
  2. Select free download under Visual Studio Community 2017. This will download the installer. Run the installer.
  3. a. Under Windows, there are 3 choices. Only check Desktop development with C++
    b. Under Web & Cloud, there are 7 choices. Only check Python development ( This is optional)

Install Tesseract Windows 10 Python

3. Install 'Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0' --- visualcppbuildtools_full

 Microsoft link to download, Link
4. Install 'BuildTools_Full' from following Link
5. Install Tesseract-OCR from following link 64bit link 32 bit
Post that add new environment variable TESSDATA_PREFIX --> C:Program Files(x86)Tesseract-OCR
Also update environment variable PATH with, C:Program Files (x86)Tesseract-OCR
Ideally this should work, else you could also add a new environment variable 'tesseract' with value of 'C:Program Files (x86)Tesseract-OCRtesseract.exe'

Install Tesseract 4.0 Windows 10

Sometimes, in order to execute Tesseract on Windows 10, we have to follow above steps and then do following:


Find script file pytesseract.py from C:Python36Libsite-packagepytesseract and Open it.

Change the following code
from: tesseract_cmd= 'tesseract'
to: tesseract_cmd='D:Program Files (x86)Tesseract-OCRtesseract.exe'