Stripped "\" from Windows Tessdata Path #356
Description
When trying to run pytesseract from a windows 10 environment, I found that the config was stripping the \ in my tessdata path.
I found that the solution to fix this was in pytesseract.py: line 251:
if config:
cmd_args += shlex.split(config, posix=False)
To confirm it was the issue, here was the config before this section of code:
--tessdata-dir E:\Projects\fhm-test-automation\tessdata --oem 3 --psm 3
And after the shlex.split(), the cmd_args was now:
['tesseract', 'C:\\Users\\nickr\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tess_ai78chdv.PNG', 'C:\\Users\\nickr\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tess_ai78chdv', '-l', 'eng', '--tessdata-dir', 'E:Projectsfhm-test-automationtessdata', '--oem', '3', '--psm', '3']
Please note that I truncated off the extra, unneeded information.
As you can see, the --tessdata-dir was altered, thus giving the dreaded TESSDATA_PREFIX error.
I would make a PR myself, but I do not know enough about the system to know the consequences on my actions.