How To Install tesseract-ocr-ara on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ara
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-ara
tesseract-ocr-ara is:
Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. This package contains the data needed for processing images in Arabic language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-ara
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tesseract-ocr-ara Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-ara
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-ara
Install tesseract-ocr-ara Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-ara
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-ara
Install tesseract-ocr-ara Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-ara
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-ara
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ara on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-ara
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-ara
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ara And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-ara
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-ara
Remove tesseract-ocr-ara Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-ara
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-ara
Remove tesseract-ocr-ara configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-ara
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-ara
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ara
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.