How To Install tesseract-ocr-amh on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-amh on Ubuntu 18.04. tesseract-ocr-amh is tesseract-ocr language files for Amharic

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-amh on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is tesseract-ocr-amh

tesseract-ocr-amh is:

Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. This package contains the data needed for processing images in Amharic language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-amh 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 tesseract-ocr-amh Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-amh using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-amh

Install tesseract-ocr-amh Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-amh using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-amh

Install tesseract-ocr-amh 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 tesseract-ocr-amh using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-amh

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-amh on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-amh package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-amh

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-amh And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-amh and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-amh

Remove tesseract-ocr-amh Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-amh configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-amh

Remove tesseract-ocr-amh configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-amh configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-amh

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-amh package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.