How To Install tesseract-ocr-srp on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-srp on Ubuntu 22.04. tesseract-ocr-srp is tesseract-ocr language files for Serbian

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-srp on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is tesseract-ocr-srp

tesseract-ocr-srp 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 Serbian language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-srp 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-srp 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-srp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-srp

Install tesseract-ocr-srp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-srp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-srp

Install tesseract-ocr-srp 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-srp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-srp

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-srp on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-srp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-srp

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-srp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-srp 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-srp

Remove tesseract-ocr-srp Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-srp configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-srp

Remove tesseract-ocr-srp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-srp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-srp

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-srp package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.