pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractError: (2, Usage: pytesseract [-l lang] input_file)

#1. Install tesseract using windows installer available at: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

#2. Note the tesseract path from the installation.Default installation path at the time the time of this edit was: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR. It may change so please check the installation path.

#3. pip install pytesseract

#4. Set the tesseract path in the script before calling image_to_string:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

pip install pytesseract

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt install libtesseract-dev