How To Install python-pyocr on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pyocr on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-pyocr
python-pyocr is:
PyOCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) tool wrapper for Python. That is, it helps using OCR tools from a Python program.
PyOCR can be used as a wrapper for google’s Tesseract-OCR or Cuneiform. It can read all image types supported by Pillow, including jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, and others. It also support bounding box data.
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-pyocr 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-pyocr 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-pyocr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-pyocr
Install python-pyocr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-pyocr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-pyocr
Install python-pyocr 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-pyocr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-pyocr
How To Uninstall python-pyocr on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-pyocr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-pyocr
Uninstall python-pyocr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-pyocr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pyocr
Remove python-pyocr Configurations and Data
To remove python-pyocr configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-pyocr
Remove python-pyocr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-pyocr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pyocr
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pyocr package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
