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