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 Prerequisites:
 
-- Python-tesseract requires python 2.6+ or python 3.x
+- Python-tesseract requires python 2.7+ or python 3.x
 - You will need the Python Imaging Library (PIL) (or the `Pillow <https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/>`_ fork).
   Under Debian/Ubuntu, this is the package **python-imaging** or **python3-imaging**.
 - Install `Google Tesseract OCR <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract>`_