How To Install tesseract-ocr-cym on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-cym
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-cym
tesseract-ocr-cym 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 Welsh language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-cym
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-cym 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-cym
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-cym
Install tesseract-ocr-cym Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-cym
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-cym
Install tesseract-ocr-cym 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-cym
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-cym
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-cym on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-cym
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-cym
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-cym And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-cym
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-cym
Remove tesseract-ocr-cym Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-cym
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-cym
Remove tesseract-ocr-cym configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-cym
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-cym
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-cym
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.