How To Install gocr on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gocr on Fedora 34.
What is gocr
GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers. GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis.
We can use yum or dnf to install gocr on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gocr.
Install gocr on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gocr using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gocr
Install gocr on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gocr using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gocr
How To Uninstall gocr on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gocr package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gocr
gocr Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gocr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/ee5cebd03a294c25bfa251bdf3df7955e28d69
/usr/share/doc/gocr
/usr/share/doc/gocr/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gocr/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/gocr/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/gocr/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/gocr/README
/usr/share/doc/gocr/READMEde.txt
/usr/share/doc/gocr/REMARK.txt
/usr/share/doc/gocr/REVIEW
/usr/share/doc/gocr/TODO
/usr/share/doc/gocr/gocr.html
/usr/share/doc/gocr/gpl.html
/usr/share/man/man1/gocr.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gocr on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
