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