How To Install tesseract-ocr-enm on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-enm on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-enm
tesseract-ocr-enm 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, Middle (1100-1500) language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-enm 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-enm 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-enm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-enm
Install tesseract-ocr-enm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-enm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-enm
Install tesseract-ocr-enm 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-enm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-enm
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-enm on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-enm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-enm
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-enm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-enm 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-enm
Remove tesseract-ocr-enm Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-enm configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-enm
Remove tesseract-ocr-enm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-enm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-enm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-enm package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
