pytesseract WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied

Question

I have installed pytesseract in Windows 10 system. When I try to run the following line,

pytesser=pytesseract.image_to_string(image)

It throws an error saying,

WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied

Even after changing the tesseract_cmd path, it throws the same error.

Looking for the other possible ways to sort this issue.TIA

Do you have tesseract installed in your machine , Just give a try to `c:\>tesseract` , and check you are correct output there — coder3521, Dec 05 '17 at 10:38

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '17 at 11:00

Your code works except the setting of pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd. The tesseract_cmd should set to the tesseract executable file installed in your machine. Check if it's pointing to that

See if this helps

Pytesseract Image_to_string returns Windows Error: Access denied error in Python

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 29 '20 at 06:03

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I also suffering this WinError5 Access denial problem in 2020 even with the tesseract executable path set-up in Windows 10, Python 3.7 and tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5.0.0-alpha.20200223.exe from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki in Anaconda.

This solution works for me.

Uninstall tesseract
Run installer as administrator (Right click the installer as select run-as)

answered Feb 29 '20 at 06:03

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Did not work for me. – fanbyprinciple Apr 14 '22 at 02:33

pytesseract WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied

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