Importing tesseract after easy_install fails on OS X Yosemite

[JM T]

Reinstalling tesseract via brew did not resolve the issue

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/user/Documents/workspace/Vision/lpr/lpr.py", line 8, in <module>
    import tesseract
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/tesseract.py", line 28, in <module>
    _tesseract = swig_import_helper()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/tesseract.py", line 24, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_tesseract', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/_tesseract.so, 2): Symbol not found: _TessBaseGetBlockTextOrientations
  Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/_tesseract.so
  Expected in: /usr/local/lib/libtesseract.3.dylib
 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/_tesseract.so

[George V. Reilly]

I get the exact same error. I've freshly installed Tesseract 3.04 via brew.

[Tiago Silva]

I have the same issue with fresh installed Tesseract 3.04 via brew

Uninstalled and reinstalled Tesseract 3.02 via brew and i get a new error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app.py", line 18, in <module>
    from match import getQuery
  File "/Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/ocr/flask_server/match.py", line 8, in <module>
    from ocr_object import OCR
  File "/Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/ocr/flask_server/ocr_object.py", line 6, in <module>
    from process import process_image
  File "/Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/ocr/flask_server/process.py", line 8, in <module>
    from ocr import getWords
  File "/Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/ocr/flask_server/ocr.py", line 4, in <module>
    import tesseract
  File "/Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/tesseract.py", line 28, in <module>
    _tesseract = swig_import_helper()
  File "/Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/tesseract.py", line 24, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_tesseract', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/_tesseract.so, 2): Symbol not found: _bbufferBytesToWrite
  Referenced from: /Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/_tesseract.so
  Expected in: /usr/local/lib/liblept.4.dylib
 in /Users/tiagosilva/Repositories/ocrapp/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg/_tesseract.so

[Bách Trần]

May be it is a little bit late, but i found the solution (for whoever have the same error):

• Use python_tesseract-0.9.1-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg version, and install it (i used easy_install)

• Download tesseract 3.02's source, and follow this guide to build it from source.

• If "leptonica is missing" then follow this fix