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