How To Install tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-eng
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-eng
tesseract-ocr-eng 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 English language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-eng
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-eng 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-eng
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-eng
Install tesseract-ocr-eng Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-eng
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-eng
Install tesseract-ocr-eng 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-eng
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-eng
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-eng
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-eng
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-eng
Remove tesseract-ocr-eng Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-eng
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-eng
Remove tesseract-ocr-eng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-eng
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-eng
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-eng
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.