How To Install tesseract-ocr-lao on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-lao
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-lao
tesseract-ocr-lao 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 Lao language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-lao
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-lao 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-lao
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-lao
Install tesseract-ocr-lao Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-lao
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-lao
Install tesseract-ocr-lao 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-lao
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-lao
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-lao on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-lao
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-lao
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-lao And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-lao
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-lao
Remove tesseract-ocr-lao Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-lao
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-lao
Remove tesseract-ocr-lao configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-lao
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-lao
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-lao
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.