Error while importing pytesseract

[Vinay Chandran]

 Whenever I try to import pytesseract i get this error,

 img2gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

error: ..\..\..\modules\imgproc\src\color.cpp:3739: error: (-215) scn == 3 || scn == 4 in function cv::cvtColor

Any help would be much appreciated

[Azka Gilani]

It is not an import error. It is maybe because of the fact that image that you are trying to convert is not RGB.

[Vinay Chandran]

Thanks for the response

Can you please clear another doubt that I have

I am actually trying to detect and extract text data from tables in images .As of now I am looking to use OCR for the same in Python. Is there any other possible methods to solve this problem