Cx_freeze: Executable With Pytesseract Fails On Other Pc

I've made an executable file from my Python - OCR program (import pytesseract) using cx_Freeze. The resulting .exe works fine on my own machine. To test the program I made a zip-fo

Solution 1:

pytesseract is a wrapper for Google's Tesseract-OCR Engine. In order that pytesseractworks, the Tesseract-OCR engine needs to be installed and one must be able to invoke the tesseract command as tesseract (this means that the Tesseract-OCR installation directory needs to be in the PATH).

I believe that pytesseract has been properly included in the executable but that the tesseract command does not work on the "other PC" (either Tesseract-OCR is not installed there or the Tesseract-OCR installation directory is not in the PATH there).

You need to tell the owner of the "other PC" to install Tesseract-OCR and to check that it can be started with the command tesseract from any location.

Another option would be to include the whole Tesseract-OCR installation directory in the frozen executable using the build_exeoption include_files (your variable additional_files) and to make sure that this included directory gets included in the PATH on the target PC, but this is probably not platform-independent and thus not recommended.