How To Install zinnia on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install zinnia on CentOS 7. zinnia is Online handwriting recognition system with machine learning

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zinnia on CentOS 7.

What is zinnia

Zinnia provides a simple, customizable, and portable dynamic OCR system for hand-written input, based on Support Vector Machines. Zinnia simply receives user pen strokes as coordinate data and outputs the best matching characters sorted by SVM confidence. To maintain portability, it has no rendering functionality. In addition to recognition, Zinnia provides a training module capable of creating highly efficient handwriting recognition models. This package contains the shared libraries.

We can use yum or dnf to install zinnia on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zinnia.

Install zinnia on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install zinnia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zinnia

Install zinnia on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install zinnia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zinnia

How To Uninstall zinnia on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the zinnia package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove zinnia

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zinnia on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.