Python Error: PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied
Solution 1
I've had same problem. I solved this. First you must add path C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\ in environment variables. Second I noticed if my code in differen disk, programm can't load language from folder tessdata. So I move my code from Disk D to Disk C, and it's finally work.
Solution 2
Run Python or Python IDE as Admin and Set tesseract_cmd, pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd, TESSDATA_PREFIX and tessdata_dir_config as follows:
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
tesseract_cmd = 'D:\\Softwares\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract'
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'D:\\Softwares\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract'
TESSDATA_PREFIX= 'D:\Softwares\Tesseract-OCR'
tessdata_dir_config = '--tessdata-dir "D:\\Softwares\\Tesseract-OCR\\tessdata"'
print(pytesseract.image_to_string( Image.open('D:\\ImageProcessing\\f2.jpg'), lang='eng', config=tessdata_dir_config))
Solution 3
I faced this same issue and adding complete path for the pytesseract executable has worked for me. So , if you have installed pytesseract in your "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract" make sure in your code you are adding below path:-
C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract\tesseract.exe
Your code would look like below
tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract\\tesseract.exe'
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = tesseract_cmd
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test.png')))
Hope this works for you too.
Solution 4
I had the same issue and I resolved it by running IDLE as an Administrator and then opening the .py file thru IDLE.
Devin Martin
Updated on June 28, 2022Comments
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Devin Martin almost 2 years
So I am currently trying to use Tesseract (pytesseract wrapper) in Python 3.5. Now Im at the office so my guess is that there are some goofy permissions not set and thats why I get this error trying to run some pretty simple code. Now I do have admnin permissions on this machine and can change file permissions... any idea what I can do to get this to run?
If anything it will help me wrap my head around system permissions in general as I work with different OS.
import pytesseract from PIL import Image test = Image.open('test.png') print (pytesseract.image_to_string(test)) Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec 6 2015, 01:38:48) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> ========= RESTART: C:\Users\dmartin\CheckScanScript\TextFromImage.py ========= Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\dmartin\CheckScanScript\TextFromImage.py", line 4, in <module> print (pytesseract.image_to_string(test)) File "C:\Users\dmartin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 161, in image_to_string config=config) File "C:\Users\dmartin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 94, in run_tesseract stderr=subprocess.PIPE) File "C:\Users\dmartin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 950, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "C:\Users\dmartin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1220, in _execute_child startupinfo) PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied