def get_tesseract_version():
    '''
    Returns LooseVersion object of the Tesseract version
    '''
    try:
        return LooseVersion(
            subprocess.check_output(
                [tesseract_cmd, '--version'], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT
            ).decode('utf-8').split()[1].lstrip(string.printable[10:])
        )
    except OSError:
        raise TesseractNotFoundError()