The latest articles on DEV Community by Siddardha Annapureddy (@siddardha5c0). https://dev.to/siddardha5c0 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F901664%2F1ee6294a-3b66-49fd-ac85-41fb8a69f354.jpeg https://dev.to/siddardha5c0 en Siddardha Annapureddy Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:22:13 +0000 https://dev.to/siddardha5c0/tesseract-not-working-in-the-spyder-5b6 https://dev.to/siddardha5c0/tesseract-not-working-in-the-spyder-5b6 <p>i am getting an error when i use the python tesseract in spyder. i have installed the tesseract engine and install the pytesseract package too.<br> i am getting the below error</p> <p>TesseractNotFoundError: C:\ProgramFiles\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe is not installed or it's not in your PATH. See README file for more information.<br> i have set the tesseract folder path in system environmental variables too.<br> please help me i am struck <br> the below information is the console shown error<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>runfile('C:/Users/Siddardha/.spyder-py3/python_using_pytesseract.py', wdir='C:/Users/Siddardha/.spyder-py3') Traceback (most recent call last): File ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py:254 in run_tesseract proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd_args, **subprocess_args()) File C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py:108 in __init__ super(SubprocessPopen, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) File C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py:951 in __init__ self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, File C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py:1420 in _execute_child hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args, FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File ~\.spyder-py3\python_using_pytesseract.py:22 in &lt;module&gt; texts = pytesseract.image_to_string(img) File ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py:416 in image_to_string return { File ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py:419 in &lt;lambda&gt; Output.STRING: lambda: run_and_get_output(*args), File ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py:286 in run_and_get_output run_tesseract(**kwargs) File ~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py:258 in run_tesseract raise TesseractNotFoundError() TesseractNotFoundError: C:\ProgramFiles\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe is not installed or it's not in your PATH. See README file for more information. </code></pre> </div> tesseract spyder pytesseract ocr