How To Install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-gamera.toolkits.ocr
python-gamera.toolkits.ocr is:
The Gamera OCR Toolkit is meant to help building optical character recognition (OCR) systems for standard text documents. Even though it can be used as is, it is specifically designed to make individual steps of the recognition system customizable and replaceable. It provides:
- a flexible mechanism for plugging in custom page segmentation algorithms
- heuristic rules for dealing with diacritics, and for disambiguation of common confused roman characters (like comma and apostrophe, or lower and upper case ‘W’)
- a ready-to-run script ocr4gamera which acts as a basic OCR-system.
Note that the toolkit does not include any training data.
There are three methods to install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr
Install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr
Install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr 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 python-gamera.toolkits.ocr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr
How To Uninstall python-gamera.toolkits.ocr on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-gamera.toolkits.ocr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-gamera.toolkits.ocr
Uninstall python-gamera.toolkits.ocr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-gamera.toolkits.ocr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-gamera.toolkits.ocr
Remove python-gamera.toolkits.ocr Configurations and Data
To remove python-gamera.toolkits.ocr configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-gamera.toolkits.ocr
Remove python-gamera.toolkits.ocr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-gamera.toolkits.ocr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-gamera.toolkits.ocr
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gamera.toolkits.ocr package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.