How To Install tesseract-ocr-bul on Ubuntu 18.04

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-bul

tesseract-ocr-bul 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 Bulgarian language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-bul 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-bul 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-bul using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install tesseract-ocr-bul Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-bul

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-bul

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-bul on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-bul

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-bul And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-bul 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-bul

Remove tesseract-ocr-bul Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

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Summary

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