gistfile1.txt

root@zero-1:~# python3
Python 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tesserocr
!strcmp(locale, "C"):Error:Assert failed:in file baseapi.cpp, line 209
Segmentation fault

root@zero-1:~# dpkg -l | grep tess
ii  libtesseract4:armhf                    4.0.0-2                             armhf        Tesseract OCR library
ii  python3-tesserocr                      2.4.0-4                             armhf        Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API (Python3 version)
ii  tesseract-ocr                          4.0.0-2                             armhf        Tesseract command line OCR tool
ii  tesseract-ocr-eng                      1:4.00~git30-7274cfa-1              all          tesseract-ocr language files for English
ii  tesseract-ocr-osd                      1:4.00~git30-7274cfa-1              all          tesseract-ocr language files for script and orientation
root@zero-1:~#

root@zero-1:~# python3
Python 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C')
'C'
import tesserocr

sirfz/tesserocr#165 had the fix