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