# Unable to install tesseract-ocr through PIP command

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**Created:** [3 January 2024 21:08 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/unable-to-install-tesseract-ocr-through-pip-command/6605 "2024-01-03T21:08:12Z")\
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Unable to install tesseract-ocr through PIP commend and getting below error. can you let me know how do fix this?  
Currently I am using latest python 3.12.0 and PIP (23.2.1) versions

Collecting tesseract-ocr  
Using cached [https://dockercentral.it.att.com:8094/nexus/repository/pypi-group/packages/tesseract-ocr/0.0.1/tesseract-ocr-0.0.1.tar.gz](https://dockercentral.it.att.com:8094/nexus/repository/pypi-group/packages/tesseract-ocr/0.0.1/tesseract-ocr-0.0.1.tar.gz) (33 kB)  
Installing build dependencies … done  
Getting requirements to build wheel … done  
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) … done  
Collecting cython (from tesseract-ocr)  
Using cached [https://dockercentral.it.att.com:8094/nexus/repository/pypi-group/packages/cython/3.0.7/Cython-3.0.7-cp312-cp312-win\_amd64.whl](https://dockercentral.it.att.com:8094/nexus/repository/pypi-group/packages/cython/3.0.7/Cython-3.0.7-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl) (2.8 MB)  
Building wheels for collected packages: tesseract-ocr  
Building wheel for tesseract-ocr (pyproject.toml) … error  
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for tesseract-ocr (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.  
│ exit code: 1  
╰─\> [29 lines of output]  
C:\Users\gk146\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-n0\_8\_wgx\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:472: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: Invalid dash-separated options  
!!

```
          ********************************************************************************
          Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future
          versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead.

          By 2024-Sep-26, you need to update your project and remove deprecated calls
          or your builds will no longer be supported.

          See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_config.html for details.
          ********************************************************************************

  !!
    opt = self.warn_dash_deprecation(opt, section)
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  file tesseract_ocr.py (for module tesseract_ocr) not found
  file tesseract_ocr.py (for module tesseract_ocr) not found
  running build_ext
  building 'tesseract_ocr' extension
  creating build
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-312
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-312\Release
  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe" /c /nologo /O2 /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -IC:\Users\gk146\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\include -IC:\Users\gk146\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Include "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\cppwinrt" /EHsc /Tptesseract_ocr.cpp /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-cpython-312\Release\tesseract_ocr.obj
  tesseract_ocr.cpp
  tesseract_ocr.cpp(264): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'leptonica/allheaders.h': No such file or directory
  error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.29.30133\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2
  [end of output]

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note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.  
ERROR: Failed building wheel for tesseract-ocr  
Failed to build tesseract-ocr  
ERROR: Could not build wheels for tesseract-ocr, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

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> [@gopikg](#):
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> tesseract-ocr

(The version seems to be too old)

If you need tesseract-ocr for Python, then it is better to use `pytesseract` [GitHub - madmaze/pytesseract: A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract](https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract).

But you need to take care with the version of Python. Usually, libraries take some time to be updated to latest versions. This could be the case with Python 3.12.