python - Installing pytesser

Question

I'm new to python and would like to install and use the pytesser OCR library. All of the other modules that I've installed, I've used easy_install, which has worked fine. But pytesser is the first that I've had to install by hand using Google Code's .zip file.

Per the instructions in the readme (https://code.google.com/p/pytesser/wiki/README) I extracted the contexts to my C:Python27Scripts file. However when I try:

from pytesser import *

within the Python Shell, I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
    from pytesser import *
ImportError: No module named pytesser

Any ideas? Windows 7. Python 2.7. My other scripts using modules such as PIL, Scrapy, Numpy have been working fine.

Thanks, Tom

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is the ideal solution, but this works for me. Please do correct me if this is incorrect in any way.

1. Unzip the folder & paste it in your Python2xLib folder
2. Rename it to pytesser (I'm not too sure if this is a necessary step)
3. Duplicate the tesseract.py file and rename it as __init__.py
4. Open __init__.py
5. Change the line tesseract_exe_name = "tesseract" to tesseract_exe_name = 'C:Python27Libpytesseresseract'

Done.