How To Install tesseract-ocr-chr on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-chr on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-chr
tesseract-ocr-chr 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 Cherokee language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-chr 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-chr 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-chr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-chr
Install tesseract-ocr-chr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-chr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-chr
Install tesseract-ocr-chr 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-chr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-chr
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-chr on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-chr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-chr
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-chr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-chr 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-chr
Remove tesseract-ocr-chr Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-chr configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-chr
Remove tesseract-ocr-chr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-chr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-chr
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-chr package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
