Getting Tesseract to work for pytesseract

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Getting Tesseract to work for pytesseract - bigmit37 - May-03-2017

I'm trying to use pytesseract but it seems I have to first install Tesseract on my windows OS and get it working properly first on Windows before I can use the python wrapper.

I have installed it properly, but I'm having trouble getting it working from the command line, which seems necessary if I want to use the Python wrapper.

I've add this path to the PATH Environmental Variables

C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe, which assumed allow me to run tesseract from the command line by using the command 'tesseract'

The image is in my current directory, which is C:\User\Moondra

The command I tried was :

tesseract DMTX_screenshot.png out

But I"m getting the error, tesseract is not recognized as an internal or external command.

I double checked with my python code, and I get this error.

from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import image_to_string

#print image_to_string(Image.open('test.png'))
image_to_string(Image.open('KDMN_screenshot.png')

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?