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

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-orya on Ubuntu 18.04. tesseract-ocr-script-orya is tesseract-ocr data for Oriya (Odia) script

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-script-orya

tesseract-ocr-script-orya 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 Oriya (Odia) script.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-script-orya Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-orya And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-orya 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-orya

Remove tesseract-ocr-script-orya Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

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Summary

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