Pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseracterror: (2, ‘usage: pytesseract [-l lang] input_file’)

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The error message you are seeing:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseracterror: (2, 'usage: pytesseract [-l lang] input_file')

indicates that there is a problem with the usage or parameters passed to the pytesseract library when trying to run the script.

The error message suggests that the usage of the pytesseract command should include the “lang” parameter followed by the desired language for the OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Additionally, it expects an “input_file” parameter specifying the file from which the text needs to be extracted.

Here’s an example of how you can use pytesseract to extract text from an image file with the English language specified: 

    
      import pytesseract
      from PIL import Image
      
      image_path = "path/to/your/image.jpg"
      extracted_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(image_path), lang='eng')
      print(extracted_text)

Please ensure that you have pytesseract installed correctly and that you have provided the correct path to the Tesseract OCR executable if necessary. Also, make sure that the image file you are trying to extract text from exists in the specified path.

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