tesseract has no attribute pixRead

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tesseract.pixRead is throwing me the following error

import tesseract
pixImage=tesseract.pixRead(mImgFile)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pixRead'

I am running Ubuntu Precise and I followed the instructions here: 
https://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/wiki/HowToInstallPythonTesseractDeb

wget 
http://python-tesseract.googlecode.com/files/python-tesseract_0.7-1.4_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
sudo dpkg -i python-tesseract_0.7-1.4_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get -f install


when I inspect the tesseract object via pdb, I get the following: 

(Pdb) p dir(tesseract)
['GetUTF8Text', 'JUSTIFICATION_CENTER', 'JUSTIFICATION_LEFT', 
'JUSTIFICATION_RIGHT', 'JUSTIFICATION_UNKNOWN', 'MAX_NUM_INT_FEATURES', 
'OEM_CUBE_ONLY', 'OEM_DEFAULT', 'OEM_TESSERACT_CUBE_COMBINED', 
'OEM_TESSERACT_ONLY', 'ORIENTATION_PAGE_DOWN', 'ORIENTATION_PAGE_LEFT', 
'ORIENTATION_PAGE_RIGHT', 'ORIENTATION_PAGE_UP', 'PSM_AUTO', 'PSM_AUTO_ONLY', 
'PSM_AUTO_OSD', 'PSM_CIRCLE_WORD', 'PSM_COUNT', 'PSM_OSD_ONLY', 
'PSM_SINGLE_BLOCK', 'PSM_SINGLE_BLOCK_VERT_TEXT', 'PSM_SINGLE_CHAR', 
'PSM_SINGLE_COLUMN', 'PSM_SINGLE_LINE', 'PSM_SINGLE_WORD', 'PTIsImageType', 
'PTIsLineType', 'PTIsTextType', 'PT_CAPTION_TEXT', 'PT_COUNT', 'PT_EQUATION', 
'PT_FLOWING_IMAGE', 'PT_FLOWING_TEXT', 'PT_HEADING_IMAGE', 'PT_HEADING_TEXT', 
'PT_HORZ_LINE', 'PT_INLINE_EQUATION', 'PT_NOISE', 'PT_PULLOUT_IMAGE', 
'PT_PULLOUT_TEXT', 'PT_TABLE', 'PT_UNKNOWN', 'PT_VERTICAL_TEXT', 
'PT_VERT_LINE', 'ProcessPagesBuffer', 'ProcessPagesFileStream', 
'ProcessPagesPix', 'ProcessPagesRaw', 'ProcessPagesWrapper', 'RIL_BLOCK', 
'RIL_PARA', 'RIL_SYMBOL', 'RIL_TEXTLINE', 'RIL_WORD', 'SetCvImage', 
'SetVariable', 'TEXTLINE_ORDER_LEFT_TO_RIGHT', 'TEXTLINE_ORDER_RIGHT_TO_LEFT', 
'TEXTLINE_ORDER_TOP_TO_BOTTOM', 'TessBaseAPI', 'TessBaseAPI_DeleteBlockList', 
'TessBaseAPI_FindRowForBox', 'TessBaseAPI_MakeTBLOB', 
'TessBaseAPI_MakeTessOCRRow', 'TessBaseAPI_NormalizeTBLOB', 
'TessBaseAPI_Version', 'TessBaseAPI_swigregister', 
'WRITING_DIRECTION_LEFT_TO_RIGHT', 'WRITING_DIRECTION_RIGHT_TO_LEFT', 
'WRITING_DIRECTION_TOP_TO_BOTTOM', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', 
'__name__', '__package__', '_newclass', '_object', '_swig_getattr', 
'_swig_property', '_swig_repr', '_swig_setattr', '_swig_setattr_nondynamic', 
'_tesseract', 'cvar', 'isLibLept', 'isLibTiff', 'kPointsPerInch', 'suck']
(Pdb) 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by will...@gmail.com on 30 Oct 2014 at 8:45