Recognize Simple Digits With Pytesser

I'm learning OCR using PyTesser and Tesseract. As the first milestone, I want to write a tool to recognize captcha that simply consists of some digits. I read some tutorials and wr

Solution 1:

I think your code is quite okay. It can recognize 207770. The problem is at pytesser installation. The Tesseract in pytesser is out-of-date. You'd download a most recent version and overwrite corresponding files. You'd also edit pytesser.py and change

tesseract_exe_name = 'tesseract'

to

import os.path
tesseract_exe_name = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'tesseract')