pytesseract run_and_get_output giving Error 13 Permission denied

Question

I am trying to use pytesseract's run_and_get_output function . But it is giving me :

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\yp270\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tess_0va90z8x.'

I am using: python 3.7.5 pytesseract 0.3.1 tesseract 3.05.02

I have tried : setting TESSDATA_PREFIX to my tessdata directory in system environment variables setting pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd to my tesseract executable file

I seems the error comes when pytesseract is trying to open some output file File "C:\\Users\\yp270\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\\pytesseract\\pytesseract.py", line 260, in run_and_get_output

File "C:\\Users\\yp270\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\\pytesseract\\pytesseract.py", line 260, in

with open(filename, 'rb') as output_file:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\yp270\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tess_5nau69o0.'

But, apart from all this , their is no problem while using image_to_string , image_to_data , image_to_osd etc functions. They work perfectly fine. this problem arises only in run_and_get_output function.

Can anyone tell where is the problem???

Code:

import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Users\\yp270\\AppData\\Local\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe'
from PIL import Image

img = Image.open('image_path')
boxes = pytesseract.image(img)

Answer 1

Have you tried installing a different version of Tesseract? I got the same error as you while using tesseract v5.0.0, but everything worked fine after switching to tesseract v4.0.0.

I used tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v4.0.0.20181030.exe from the older versions section at https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki