How To Install tesseract-ocr-pus on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-pus
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-pus
tesseract-ocr-pus 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 Pashto language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-pus
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-pus 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-pus
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-pus
Install tesseract-ocr-pus Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-pus
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-pus
Install tesseract-ocr-pus 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-pus
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-pus
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-pus on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-pus
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-pus
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-pus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-pus
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-pus
Remove tesseract-ocr-pus Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-pus
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-pus
Remove tesseract-ocr-pus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-pus
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-pus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-pus
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.