Evening everyone,
I am trying to use a tesseract (OCR) python wrapper found here, with the first example: https://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/wiki/CodeSnippets
I am using Python27, on a Windows XP machine. Everything is 32 bit.
I have installed all the dependencies, found in this guide: http://opencvpython.blogspot.com/2012/05/install-opencv-in-windows-for-python.html
I checked the environment variable: TESSDATA_PREFIX = C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata\
Then finally, I try to execute the script in cmd.exe: "python.exe 119.py" (119.py being the first example in CodeSnippets, with a different image ofc), and I get the following error:
C:\Python27>python.exe 119.py Error opening data file C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tessdatatessdata/eng.trai neddata Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to the parent d irectory of your "tessdata" directory. Failed loading language 'eng' Tesseract couldn't load any languages!
Now, the only thing I notice here is the slash (/) instead of backslash (\) before the eng.traineddata, that's the bit automatically added after the environment variable. I am hoping this is the only thing that needs fixing, but I have no clue on how to do it, and that is why I am here... :)
So, seasoned programmers, binary Gods, please help me out. Thanks in advance. :)
p.s.
I need to be using a Windows machine for this project, so swiching to Linux as an easy way out is not an option here. :(
