How To Install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim on CentOS 8

tesseract-langpack-chi_sim is Chinese (Simplified) language data for tesseract-tessdata

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim on CentOS 8.

What is tesseract-langpack-chi_sim

This package contains the fast integer version of the Chinese (Simplified) language trained models for the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine.

We can use yum or dnf to install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim.

Install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim

Install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim

How To Uninstall tesseract-langpack-chi_sim on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the tesseract-langpack-chi_sim package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tesseract-langpack-chi_sim

tesseract-langpack-chi_sim Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/tesseract/tessdata/chi_sim.traineddata

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.