How To Install gimagereader-common on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-common
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gimagereader-common
gimagereader-common is:
gImageReader is a simple front-end to tesseract-ocr. Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source optical character recognition (OCR) software and can recognize text in over 60 languages.
gImageReader supports automatic page layout detection but the user can also manually define and adjust the recognition regions. It is possible to import images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots. gImageReader also supports multipage PDF documents. Recognized text is displayed directly next to the image and basic text editing including search/replace and removing of line breaks is possible. Spellchecking for the output text is also supported if the corresponding dictionaries are installed.
This package contains common files for the GTK+ and Qt 5 variants of gImageReader.
There are three methods to install gimagereader-common
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 gimagereader-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gimagereader-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gimagereader-common
Install gimagereader-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gimagereader-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gimagereader-common
Install gimagereader-common 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 gimagereader-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gimagereader-common
How To Uninstall gimagereader-common on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gimagereader-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gimagereader-common
Uninstall gimagereader-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gimagereader-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gimagereader-common
Remove gimagereader-common Configurations and Data
To remove gimagereader-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gimagereader-common
Remove gimagereader-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gimagereader-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gimagereader-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-common
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.