How To Install tesseract-ocr-khm on Ubuntu 18.04

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-khm

tesseract-ocr-khm 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 Khmer language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-khm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-khm

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-khm

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-khm on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-khm

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-khm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-khm 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-khm

Remove tesseract-ocr-khm Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

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Summary

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