How To Install tesseract-ocr-script-laoo on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-laoo on Ubuntu 18.04. tesseract-ocr-script-laoo is tesseract-ocr data for Lao script

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-script-laoo

tesseract-ocr-script-laoo 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 script.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-script-laoo

Install tesseract-ocr-script-laoo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-script-laoo

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-script-laoo

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-laoo on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-script-laoo

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-laoo And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-laoo 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-script-laoo

Remove tesseract-ocr-script-laoo Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-script-laoo

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-script-laoo

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Summary

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