No OCR tool found
Created by: Williamvdb
I have tesseract installed. I have used it many times before, but when I use this script:
from PIL import Image
import sys
import pyocr
import pyocr.builders
tools = pyocr.get_available_tools()
if len(tools) == 0:
print("No OCR tool found")
sys.exit(1)
tool = tools[0]
print("Will use tool '%s'" % (tool.get_name()))
langs = tool.get_available_languages()
print("Available languages: %s" % ", ".join(langs))
lang = langs[0]
print("Will use lang '%s'" % (lang))
txt = tool.image_to_string(Image.open('test.png'),
lang=lang,
builder=pyocr.builders.TextBuilder())
word_boxes = tool.image_to_string(Image.open('test.png'),
lang=lang,
builder=pyocr.builders.WordBoxBuilder())
line_and_word_boxes = tool.image_to_string(
Image.open('test.png'), lang=lang,
builder=pyocr.builders.LineBoxBuilder())
It says there is no OCR tool found. Any fix?