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