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