How To Install tesseract on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is tesseract
A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install tesseract
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tesseract.
Install tesseract on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install tesseract
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tesseract
Install tesseract on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install tesseract
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tesseract
How To Uninstall tesseract on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the tesseract
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tesseract
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.