How To Install tesseract-ocr-dan on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-dan on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-dan
tesseract-ocr-dan 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 Danish language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-dan 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-dan 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-dan using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-dan
Install tesseract-ocr-dan Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-dan using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-dan
Install tesseract-ocr-dan 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-dan using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-dan
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-dan on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-dan package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-dan
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-dan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-dan 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-dan
Remove tesseract-ocr-dan Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-dan configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-dan
Remove tesseract-ocr-dan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-dan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-dan
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-dan package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
