Tesseract.exe path on Ubuntu

Question

I want to use pytesseract on Ubuntu computer with Python. On Windows computer I had to set path to tesseract.exe before I call image to string function. How can I set this path on ubuntu computer?I cannot find path to tesseract.exe on my computer. Same question for the variable tesseract-PREFIX for data. Thanks in advance. Marek

Answer 1

To set a directory as part of the path in Ubuntu, you would need to edit the $PATH environment variable in bash. You can do this in two ways: one is permanent, one is for the duration of a bash session.

The temporary way: set it using the export command. You can do this by running this command in your session:

export PATH=$PATH:{directory of tesseract binary}

(Without the curly brackets, of course)

The permanent way: adding it to your .bashrc file. You can do this by running nano .bashrc and adding the command from above to the bottom of the text file. Then, start a new session, and every time your tesseract program's directory will be in the path.