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WilliamD47
WilliamD47

Reputation: 183

PermissionError: [Errno 13] when using tkinter for an image

Hello I am trying to make a python script that takes an image file from a computer and turn it into text. At the moment, I have the following code

from tkinter import Tk
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename
import pytesseract


Tk().withdraw()
filename = askopenfilename()
print(filename)
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = filename

print(pytesseract.image_to_string(filename))

However this gives me the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 11, in <module>
    print(pytesseract.image_to_string(filename))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 409, in image_to_string
    return {
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 412, in <lambda>
    Output.STRING: lambda: run_and_get_output(*args),
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 287, in run_and_get_output
    run_tesseract(**kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 258, in run_tesseract
    raise e
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 255, in run_tesseract
    proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd_args, **subprocess_args())
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/william/theimage.jpg'

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

Answers (1)

alexzander
alexzander

Reputation: 1875

this: pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = filename is absolutely wrong.

tesseract_cmd should have your tesseract engine executable path.

you need to find where you installed tesseract.

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = <path_to_tesseract_engine>
# example 
# pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = "/some_folder1/some_folder2/...
# /<where_you_installed_tesseract_cmd>/tesseract.<whatever_is_the_extension_for_executables_on_mac>"

you get permission error because you set the tesseract_cmd to link the path to your image and when you actually use pytesseract.image_to_string(<your_image>) ofcourse it raises permission denied because the image is used by the tesseract_cmd process.

after you set your engine.

this is gonna be fine

print(pytesseract.image_to_string(filename))

Upvotes: 1

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