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