No such file or directory: 'tesseract'

Question

I had installed "pytesseract" and "tesseract", but I keep getting the error:

    "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'tesseract'"

……$ pip install pytesseract
Requirement already satisfied: pytesseract in ./anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow in ./anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from pytesseract)
Requirement already satisfied: olefile in ./anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from Pillow->pytesseract)

……$ pip install tesseract
Requirement already satisfied: tesseract in ./anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages

Answer 1

Since you are using anaconda prompt for running your application, you have to specify the location of your tesseract executable inside your code, before you call tesseract.

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = '<path_to_tesseract>'

Example:

I am using windows, so it looks like

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR'

Another way to make it work in windows is to add location of tesseract to the path environment variable and execute the program from the cmd prompt