title: Why does tesseract fail to read text off this simple image?
body: <p>I have read mountains of posts on pytesseract, but I cannot get it to read text off a dead simple image; It returns an empty string.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the image:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/J2ojU.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/J2ojU.png" alt="TestImage"></a></p>
  
  <p>I have tried scaling it, grayscaling it, and adjusting the contrast, thresholding, blurring, everything it says in other posts, but my problem is that I don't know what the OCR wants to work better. Does it want blurry text? High contrast?</p>
  
  <p>Code to try:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pytesseract
  from PIL import Image
  
  print pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(IMAGE FILE))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see in my code, the image is stored locally on my computer, hence <code>Image.open()</code></p>