# FSCrawler - OCR not working anymore in 2.9 without Tesseract location in PATH

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-ocr-not-working-anymore-in-2-9-without-tesseract-location-in-path/306128>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-ocr-not-working-anymore-in-2-9-without-tesseract-location-in-path/306128 "2022-06-01T12:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![HaroldH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9de0a6/32.png) [@HaroldH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HaroldH)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-ocr-not-working-anymore-in-2-9-without-tesseract-location-in-path/306128/1 "2022-06-01T12:47:29Z")

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Hello,

Upgrading FSCrawler from 2.7 to 2.9 I noticed that with our configuration OCR wasn't working anymore. In our \_settings.yaml file we set the path to Tesseract we like below:

```auto
  ocr:
    language: "eng+nld"
    path: "D:\\opt\\Tesseract-OCR"
    data_path: "D:\\opt\\Tesseract-OCR\\tessdata"
    enabled: true
    pdf_strategy: "auto"

```

The logging from FSCrawler 2.7 shows OCR working correct:

```auto
14:13:42,549 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] Beginning Tika extraction
14:13:42,567 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] OCR is activated.
14:13:42,572 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] But Tesseract is not installed so we won't run OCR.
14:13:42,920 WARN [o.a.t.p.PDFParser] J2KImageReader not loaded. JPEG2000 files will not be processed.
See https://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/dependencies.html#jai-image-io
for optional dependencies.

14:13:43,230 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] OCR is activated so we need to configure Tesseract in case we have specific settings.
14:13:43,231 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] Tesseract Path set to [D:\opt\Tesseract-OCR].
14:13:43,232 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] Tesseract Data Path set to [D:\opt\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata].
14:13:43,232 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] Tesseract Language set to [eng+nld].
14:13:43,396 DEBUG [o.a.t.p.o.TesseractOCRParser] Tesseract command: D:\opt\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe C:\Windows\TEMP\apache-tika-752489536816618607.tmp C:\Windows\TEMP\apache-tika-2999124896453799227.tmp -l eng+nld --psm 1 -c page_separator= -c preserve_interword_spaces=0 txt
14:13:46,839 DEBUG [o.a.t.p.o.TesseractOCRParser] 
14:13:46,845 DEBUG [o.a.t.p.o.TesseractOCRParser] Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v5.0.0-alpha.20201127 with Leptonica
Page 1

14:13:46,858 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] End of Tika extraction
14:13:47,265 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.c.v.ElasticsearchClientV7] Sending a bulk request of [1] requests
14:13:47,376 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.c.v.ElasticsearchClientV7] Executed bulk request with [1] requests
14:13:48,407 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] Main detected language: [nl: HIGH (0.999996)]
14:13:48,415 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] End document generation
14:13:48,415 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] No pattern always matches.
14:13:48,415 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] computeVirtualPathName(D:\DMS\DOCD2, D:\DMS\DOCD2\harold3.tif) = \harold3.tif
14:13:48,439 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.s.FsCrawlerDocumentServiceElasticsearchImpl] Indexing psf94038_data_v1/5438744b41121ee2d59cdd51b9c141f8?pipeline=null
14:13:48,439 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.c.v.ElasticsearchClientV7] JSon indexed : {
  "content" : "...........",
  "meta" : {
    "language" : "nl"
  }

```

Using the same configuration the logging from 2.9 shows OCR not working anymore:

```auto
14:20:46,006 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] Beginning Tika extraction
14:20:46,020 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] OCR is activated.
14:20:46,027 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] Tesseract Path set to [D:\opt\Tesseract-OCR].
14:20:46,027 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] Tesseract Data Path set to [D:\opt\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata].
14:20:46,074 DEBUG [o.a.t.p.o.TesseractOCRParser] hasTesseract (path: [D:\opt\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe]): true
14:20:46,075 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] OCR strategy for PDF documents is [auto] and tesseract was found.
14:20:46,075 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaInstance] OCR is enabled. This might slowdown the process.
14:20:46,423 DEBUG [o.a.t.p.o.TesseractOCRParser] hasTesseract (path: [tesseract.exe]): false
14:20:46,424 DEBUG [o.a.t.p.o.TesseractOCRParser] ImageMagick does not appear to be installed (commandline: magick)
14:20:46,571 DEBUG [o.a.t.p.o.TesseractOCRParser] hasTesseract (path: [tesseract.exe]): false
14:20:46,572 DEBUG [o.a.t.p.o.TesseractOCRParser] ImageMagick does not appear to be installed (commandline: magick)
14:20:47,516 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] End of Tika extraction
14:20:48,937 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] Main detected language: [: NONE (0.000000)]
14:20:48,945 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.t.TikaDocParser] End document generation
14:20:48,945 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] Null or empty content always matches.
14:20:48,945 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] computeVirtualPathName(D:\DMS\DOCD2, D:\DMS\DOCD2\harold3.tif) = \harold3.tif
14:20:48,954 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.s.FsCrawlerDocumentServiceElasticsearchImpl] Indexing psf94038_data_v1/5438744b41121ee2d59cdd51b9c141f8?pipeline=null
14:20:48,955 TRACE [f.p.e.c.f.c.v.ElasticsearchClientV7] JSon indexed : {
  "meta" : { },
}

```

After adding the location to the PATH variable on the system the OCR works correctly again.

Regards,  
Harold

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-ocr-not-working-anymore-in-2-9-without-tesseract-location-in-path/306128/2 "2022-06-01T21:46:54Z")

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Could you try with 2.10-SNAPSHOT?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler-ocr-not-working-anymore-in-2-9-without-tesseract-location-in-path/306128/3 "2022-06-29T21:47:11Z")

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