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