convert image to text using python
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Install tesseract using windows installer available at: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
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Note the tesseract path from the installation. Default installation path at the time of this edit was: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR. It may change so please check the installation path.
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pip install pytesseract
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Set the tesseract path in the script before calling image_to_string:
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'