How To Install tesseract-ocr-glg on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-glg on Ubuntu 18.04. tesseract-ocr-glg is tesseract-ocr language files for Galician

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-glg on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is tesseract-ocr-glg

tesseract-ocr-glg 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 Galician language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-glg 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-glg 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-glg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-glg

Install tesseract-ocr-glg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-glg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-glg

Install tesseract-ocr-glg 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-glg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-glg

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-glg on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-glg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-glg

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-glg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-glg 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-glg

Remove tesseract-ocr-glg Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-glg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-glg

Remove tesseract-ocr-glg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-glg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-glg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-glg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.