Installation

Installing PILtesseract is very simple, but before installing it, you should make sure you install the requirements.

Tesseract-OCR

PILtesseract call the Tesseract-OCR command line tool, the tool must be installed and on your PATH variable before using PILtesseract.

Make sure you install version 3.03 or higher.

• Install either:

  • from source
  • from binaries

  • Windows users may have to download from third-party installers like UB Mannheim

• Ensure that the tesseract binary folder is on your PATH.

Pillow

The fork of the Python Image Library (“PIL”)

• Pillow

• $ pip install Pillow

Note The Pillow library installs as PIL, so you import it like: import PIL

Six

Library for python 2 and 3 compatibility

• Six

• $ pip install six

PILtesseract

Finally you can now install this library.

• Installing from pip: - $ pip install piltesseract