How To Install tesseract-ocr-script-thai on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-thai on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tesseract-ocr-script-thai
tesseract-ocr-script-thai 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 Thai script.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-script-thai 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-script-thai 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-script-thai using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-script-thai
Install tesseract-ocr-script-thai Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-script-thai using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-script-thai
Install tesseract-ocr-script-thai 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-script-thai using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-script-thai
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-thai on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-script-thai package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-script-thai
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-thai And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-thai 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-script-thai
Remove tesseract-ocr-script-thai Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-script-thai configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-script-thai
Remove tesseract-ocr-script-thai configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-script-thai configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-script-thai
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-thai package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
