How To Install tesseract-ocr-kaz on Ubuntu 18.04

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-kaz

tesseract-ocr-kaz 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 Kazakh language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-kaz Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-kaz

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-kaz

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kaz on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-kaz

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kaz And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-kaz 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-kaz

Remove tesseract-ocr-kaz Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

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Summary

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