How To Install tesseract-ocr-kmr on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-kmr on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-kmr
tesseract-ocr-kmr 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 Kurmanji (Latin) language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-kmr on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-kmr 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-kmr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-kmr
Install tesseract-ocr-kmr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-kmr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-kmr
Install tesseract-ocr-kmr 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-kmr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-kmr
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kmr on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-kmr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-kmr
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kmr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-kmr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-kmr
Remove tesseract-ocr-kmr Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-kmr configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-kmr
Remove tesseract-ocr-kmr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-kmr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-kmr
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-kmr package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
