How To Install tesseract-ocr-nor on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-nor on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-nor
tesseract-ocr-nor 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 Norwegian language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-nor 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-nor 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-nor using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-nor
Install tesseract-ocr-nor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-nor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-nor
Install tesseract-ocr-nor 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-nor using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-nor
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-nor on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-nor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-nor
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-nor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-nor 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-nor
Remove tesseract-ocr-nor Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-nor configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-nor
Remove tesseract-ocr-nor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-nor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-nor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-nor package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
