How To Install tesseract-ocr-tam on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-tam
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-tam
tesseract-ocr-tam 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 Tamil language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-tam
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-tam 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-tam
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-tam
Install tesseract-ocr-tam Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-tam
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-tam
Install tesseract-ocr-tam 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-tam
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-tam
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tam on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-tam
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-tam
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tam And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-tam
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-tam
Remove tesseract-ocr-tam Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-tam
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-tam
Remove tesseract-ocr-tam configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-tam
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-tam
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-tam
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.