How To Install tesseract-ocr-swe on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-swe
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-swe
tesseract-ocr-swe 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 Swedish language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-swe
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-swe 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-swe
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-swe
Install tesseract-ocr-swe Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-swe
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-swe
Install tesseract-ocr-swe 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-swe
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-swe
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-swe on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-swe
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-swe
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-swe And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-swe
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-swe
Remove tesseract-ocr-swe Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-swe
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-swe
Remove tesseract-ocr-swe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-swe
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-swe
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-swe
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.