[FIXED] Finding latest file in directory

Issue

I'm trying to get the latest .png file created in a directory: output_folder_one. Once find pass that file to cv2 and pytessercat to print the captured text. However, I keep getting this error:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'png'

could someone help me understand what's going on?

Code:

import cv2
import pytesseract
import os
import glob

LatestFile = max(glob.iglob('output_folder_one'.png) , key=os.path.getctime)

image = cv2.imread(LatestFile)

test = pytesseract.image_to_string(image)

print(test)

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Solution

The AttributeError means you are trying to access an attribute that don't existing for the object. in your case .png in the following string 'output_folder_one'.png.

You have to change it as: 'output_folder_one/*.png' where:

• The string contains the path to the directory to analyze. In your case output_folder_one
• The * means to get all the file
• The .png after the * means to get all the file with the specific extension.

import os
import glob

LatestFile = max(glob.iglob('output_folder_one/*.png') , key=os.path.getctime)

print(LatestFile)
#OUTPUT: 'output_folder_one'.png (my last file)

Answered By - Carlo Zanocco