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