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