How to install pytesseract in python

Steps

• Run this command in anaconda cmd  pip install pytesseract
• First go to the site  or just simply download 64bit version
• Now click double click on the setup
• Now click on next till you reach this stage (pic below) . While installing make sure you learned where you are installing because we are going to use it later on onwards
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• Now move downward and click on additional language data make sure your internet is on so that it can download the additional language. Now select the additional language you want to detect /extract from image and video here as per your requirement 
• After click on next and finish

Simple Demo

pic use : 

import cv2

import pytesseract

from PIL import Image

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd ='C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe'

img = cv2.imread('toi.jpg',cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

print(pytesseract.image_to_string(img))

cv2.imshow('Result',img)

cv2.waitKey(0)

Output :NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for the

Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Thursday submitted the

assessment system for class 12 students in the Supreme Court and said the results

will be declared by July 31.

Attorney general (AG) K K Venugopal placed the scheme for CBSE which said

performance of students in class 10, 11 and 12 examinations will be considered.

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