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PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file for extracting text from image using Pytesseract

I am trying to use the pytesseract tool on python, to extract text from the image I'm providing but I keep stumbling upon this error.
My code:
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'/Users/khadraabdirahman/opt/anaconda3/bin/tesseract'
text_from_image = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('testcopy.pdf'))
The error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/khadraabdirahman/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/testing.py", line 8, in <module>
text_from_image = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('testcopy.pdf'))
File "/Users/khadraabdirahman/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 3009, in open
"cannot identify image file %r" % (filename if filename else fp)
PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file 'testcopy.pdf'

imread() unable to identify existing image on Spyder

The file evidently exists, but imread() is unable to identify the image. Is there something I am missing? I'm still new to python and its respective libraries.
Code (Python 3.7.9)
import os
import time
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from randomlyShiftChannels import *
from alignChannels import *
from utils import *
#Path to your data directory
data_dir = os.path.join('..', 'data', 'demosaic')
#List of images
image_names = ['balloon.jpeg','cat.jpg', 'ip.jpg',
'puppy.jpg', 'squirrel.jpg', 'pencils.jpg',
'house.png', 'light.png', 'sails.png', 'tree.jpeg'];
print('Evaluating alignment...')
for imgname in image_names:
# Read image
imgpath = os.path.join(data_dir, imgname)
print("File exists:", os.path.exists(imgpath))
img = imread(imgpath)
Output
File exists: True
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Spring2021\CS370\week 6\p2-release\code\evalAlignment.py", line 48, in <module>
img = imread(imgpath)
File "D:\Spring2021\CS370\week 6\p2-release\code\utils.py", line 14, in imread
img = plt.imread(path).astype(float)
File "C:\Users\dminn\AppData\Local\Programs\Spyder\pkgs\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 2246, in imread
return matplotlib.image.imread(fname, format)
File "C:\Users\dminn\AppData\Local\Programs\Spyder\pkgs\matplotlib\image.py", line 1496, in imread
with img_open(fname) as image:
File "C:\Users\dminn\AppData\Local\Programs\Spyder\pkgs\PIL\Image.py", line 2944, in open
"cannot identify image file %r" % (filename if filename else fp)
UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file '..\\data\\demosaic\\balloon.jpeg'

I faced the identical issue using Spyder (Spyder 5.0.0 and 5.0.1).
No errors appeared when running the script from the command line.
Found workaround for Spyder: use pil_to_array() instead of imread()
from PIL import Image
img = pil_to_array(Image.open(imgpath))

Try converting your path to an absolute path, there are reasons we call it good practice
Sample code:
import os
os.path.abspath("mydir/myfile.txt") #'C:/example/cwd/mydir/myfile.txt'

No module named Image windows ananconda

from PIL import Image
from pytesser import *
image_file = 'D:\plate.jpg'
im = Image.open(image_file)
text = image_to_string(im)
text = image_file_to_string(image_file)
text = image_file_to_string(image_file, graceful_errors=True)
print "=====output=======\n"
print text
it gets me error that
C:\Users\KEN\Anaconda2\python.exe C:/Users/KENIL/PycharmProjects/plate/ocr.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/KEN/PycharmProjects/plate/ocr.py", line 2, in <module>
from pytesser import *
File "C:\Users\KEN\PycharmProjects\plate\pytesser.py", line 6, in <module>
import Image
ImportError: No module named Image
even though i have installed ananconda properly as well as pillow screenshot of package installed

The code you posted doesn't have the error. From the error message it seems that the error is in the module pytesser.py, where you probably use Image (in line 6 :-) ) without importing it.

File 'tesseract.log' is Missing (Python 2.7, Windows)

I'm trying to write an OCR script with Python (2.7, Windows OS) to get text from images. First I've downloaded PyTesser and extracted it to Python27/Lib/site-packages as 'pytesser' and I've installed tesseract with pip install tesseract . Then I wrote the following script as self.py:
from PIL import Image
from pytesser.pytesser import *
image_file = 'C:/Users/blabla/test.png'
im = Image.open(image_file)
text = image_to_string(im)
text = image_file_to_string(image_file)
text = image_file_to_string(image_file, graceful_errors=True)
print text
But I'm getting the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/blabla/self.py", line 7, in <module>
text = image_file_to_string(image_file)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pytesser\pytesser.py", line 44, in image_file_to_string
call_tesseract(filename, scratch_text_name_root)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pytesser\pytesser.py", line 24, in call_tesseract
errors.check_for_errors()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pytesser\errors.py", line 10, in check_for_errors
inf = file(logfile)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'tesseract.log'
And yes, there's no 'tesseract.log' file anywhere. What should I do? How should I solve this problem?
Thank you in advance.
Note: I've changed the line tesseract_exe_name from pytesser.py from tesseract to C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/pytesser/tesseract but it doesn't work.
Edit: Alright, I've just runned teseract.exe that is in 'pytesser' and it created the 'tesseract.log' file but I'm still getting same error.

I've changed the line from def check_for_errors(logfile = "tesseract.log"): to def check_for_errors(logfile = "C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/pytesser/tesseract.log"): in ../pytesser/errors.py and it worked.

Error Message When Converting to Grayscale in Python Using PIL?

So, I've got PIL installed (at least I think properly) to convert color images to grayscale, and when I use this code
from PIL import Image
image_file = Image.open("James.png") # open colour image
image_file = image_file.convert('1') # convert image to black and white
image_file.save('Gray.png')
IDLE shows me this...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Kane/Desktop/huh.py", line 2, in <module>
image_file = Image.open("James.png")
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1952, in open
fp = __builtin__.open(fp, "rb")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'James.png'
What do I need to do to fix this? I have Python 2.7, does this make a difference?

Your problem could be that the image file "James.png" is not in the same directory as your script, in your example on your Desktop. Is that the case?
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