In PDF Studio 8, when attempting to download OCR language files, you may receive an error looking like:

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Error: user does not have permission to write to: opt/pdfstudio8/tess/tessdata.

OCR language files are downloaded into PDF Studio installation folder and sometimes a user will not have the permission to write in this folder.

If you see the above error, follow the steps below:

1) Close PDF Studio

2) Start PDF Studio as administrator

  • Mac
    You should log out of from your user and log back in as administrator and start PDF Studio.
  • Windows 
    To start PDF Studio as admin, right-click on the Desktop icon for PDF Studio and choose: “Run as administrator”.
    If this doesn’t work, you should log out from your user and log back in as administrator and start PDF Studio.
  • Linux
    Go to your PDF Studio 8 install directory. If you installed with the Linux Debian package, this directory is /opt/pdfstudio8. And type:
    sudo ./pdfstudio8

3) Go to Document -> OCR from PDF Studio top menu bar

4) Download all the language files you need

5) Exit PDF Studio

6) Start PDF Studio as your user again.

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