What is the image to string function in pytesseract?

Recipe Objective - What is the "image_to_string" function in pytesseract? Explain with example?

The "image_to_string" function returns the unmodified output as a string from Tesseract OCR processing.

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Example:-

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:/Users/Dell/AppData/Local/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract.exe'

# Simple image to string
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test.png')))

# French text image to string
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test-european.jpg'), lang='fra'))

# # Batch processing with a single file containing the list of multiple image file paths
# print(pytesseract.image_to_string('images.txt'))