I've been trying to use pytesseract in google colab for a language other than English. After downloading other language packs and moving the files to the corresponding directory (i.e., /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata), I have set the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable as below.
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = (
r'/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata'
)
And I encountered the error [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata'. So I've been searching for solutions and tried !chmod 755 -R /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata to permit the access, and it seems not working since I get the same error after.
Have anyone dealt with a similar issue before? Any tips would be really appreciated!