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Asked: 2026-06-11T18:03:44+00:00

I’m following this tutorial to compile this fork of Tesseract (an optical character recognition

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I’m following this tutorial to compile this fork of Tesseract (an optical character recognition package) for Android. I’m at the step where I use Cygwin to build the NDK for the Tesseract Android project. I’m getting the following error when invoking ndk-build (from the tess-two directory):

c:/android-ndk-r8b-windows/android-ndk-r8b/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.6/prebuilt/windows/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.6.x-google/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld.exe: cannot find ./obj/local/armeabi-v7a/libgnustl_static.a: Permission denied

What could be causing this error? On a side note, is there an easier way to get Tesseract up and running on Android?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Under Windows, run your command prompt as an administrator and try again:

    Search->cmd.exe->Right-click->Run as Administrator

    Cygwin is unnecessary–just use Windows itself. You can follow the README build instructions on the Tesseract fork. The blog you’re following makes the process more complicated than necessary.

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