How To Install tesseract-ocr-hun on Ubuntu 18.04

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-hun

tesseract-ocr-hun 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 Hungarian language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-hun Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-hun

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-hun

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-hun on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-hun

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-hun And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-hun 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-hun

Remove tesseract-ocr-hun Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

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Summary

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