WinError 5:Access denied PyTesseract

Question

I know this question has already been answered on this site, however, none of the solutions I looke up the internet seemed to work. Here's what I tried:

• Giving all permissions to my python file
• Changing PATH variable to point to my tesseract folder
• Running IDLE as administrator and then executing the file from there

This error is quite bothering me now and I can't advance any further because of it.

Here's my code if that's going to help:

import pytesseract
import sys
import argparse
try:
    import Image
except ImportError:
    from PIL import Image
from subprocess import check_output
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR'
c=pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('img.png'))
print(c)

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Hp\Desktop\bot.py", line 12, in <module>
    c=pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('captcha.png'))
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 122, in image_to_string
config=config)
  File "C:\Python\lib\site-packages\pytesseract\pytesseract.py", line 46, in run_tesseract
proc = subprocess.Popen(command, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "C:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 707, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 992, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Accès refusé

Answer 1

I suspect a few things, not sure about any though.

First and the most obvious, the path to Tesseract is not complete. It should be something like:

tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract'

I believe your path points to a directory/folder and not an executable, though only you can confirm that. Let me know if this is incorrect, I see something else too that doesn't seem right at first, but needs more investigation.

Answer 2

Use this to read the tesseract path and also make sure that you have installed the Tesseract- OCR

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\\\Program Files (x86)\\\Tesseract-OCR\\\tesseract.exe'

using always double \\ instead of a single "\"

Answer 3

I had this issues pretty consistent, and I fix it without any access change. The trick is:

1: You need to install tesseract and remember where is path to tesseract.exe file.

2: Then install pytesseract on exect environment you going to use it using pip install pytesseract

3: Do not add any Path to your System Env variables, it will mess up with everything.

4: CLEARLY define path to image file, or even better if image will be in closest/the same directory where is your python code.

 from PIL import Image     
 import pytesseract   
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd=r'C:/Users/your_name/AppData/Local/Programs/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract' 
        
 #this path to image      
path = r'C:\Users\irina_max\Documents\Python_Scripts\Invoice 1.jpg'  
image= Image.open(path) 
image  

Answer 4

You need to install tesseract separately. I am providing the link from where you should install

https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

tesseract-ocr-w32-setup-v5.0.0-alpha.20201127.exe (32 bit) and tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5.0.0-alpha.20201127.exe (64 bit) resp.

choose here according to your system config. most of us have 64 bit. so choose that.

Install the file very carefully. I Would suggest doing it in a separate drive other than c. take the path where you have install the tesseract.exe file. and paste it at pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd

look the code...

import cv2
import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'E:/OCR/tesseract_install/tesseract.exe'
img = cv2.imread('E:/OCR/example1.png')
# to see the image below codes are there
cv2.imshow('sampleimage',img)
#enter any key to destroy the image window opened due to previous line code
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
#convert image to text using tesseract
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
print(text)

Answer 5

Install the tesseract exe in a directory inside your project. I did the above and it worked fine, without giving Win 5 error.

Answer 6

I encountered same problem, and I fixed it as 0xc0de said, change the below line:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd=r"C:\MyApps\Tesseract-ocr\"

to:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd="C:\\MyApps\\Tesseract-ocr\\tesseract.exe"