Invalid character in identifier python

Question

Problem:

I am besgginer in python programming language and I am following an oline course. For my coding practice I wrote this code:

from PIL import image

import pytesseract

ig = image.open(“course.jpg”) 

text = pytesseract.image_to_string(ig, lang=’eng’)

print(text)

But it does not compile and gives the following error message:

File "tes.py", line 7
    ig = image.open(“course.jpg”) 
                          ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

Can anyone srt out the problem?

Answer 1

If pytesseract is not installed in your virtual environment or your directories install it in your virtual environment or in your directorie by using the link:

 https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

 or by running the command on your command prompt:

           

 pip install pytesseract

Make sure that the tesseract path from default installation time is: 

‘C:/Users/USER/AppData/Local/Tesseract-OCR’

, or it may change. So carefully check the installation path and note it.

Set the tesseract path in the script before calling image_to_string by running commang:

           

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r‘C:/Users/USER/AppData/Local/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract.exe’

I hope this may help you.