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

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"