leptonica/allheaders.h file not found (gcc error) on install of tesseract-ocr

Question

I am trying to run the following code on my mac.

import Image
import pytesseract

im = Image.open('test.png')
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(im))

Following the question from here: pytesseract-no such file or directory error I need to install tesseract-ocr

but when I try to pip install tesseract-ocr I get the following errors:

creating build/temp.macosx-10.5-x86_64-2.7
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -I//anaconda/include -arch x86_64 -DNDEBUG -g
-fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I//anaconda/include/python2.7 -c
tesseract_ocr.cpp -o build/temp.macosx-10.5-x86_64-2.7/tesseract_ocr.o
tesseract_ocr.cpp:264:10: 
fatal error: 'leptonica/allheaders.h' file not found #include "leptonica/allheaders.h"
     ^
1 error generated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

I don't know what to do.

Answer 1

try it like this without using space in between "pip install easyocr"

Answer 2

In Linux Use the Following Command

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Answer 3

Use this with yum:

yum install leptonica-devel tesseract-devel

Answer 4

refer another post, final solution on my Mac:

brew install tesseract

explanation:

it will install backend tesseract and dependent lib leptonica (and others libs: giflib, jpeg, libpng, libtiff, little-cms2, openjpeg, webp), so can fix this error.

Answer 5

You need install libtesseract-dev in your system;

sudo apt install libtesseract-dev