Install tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng
Learn how to install tesseract-ocr-eng with the command sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of tesseract-ocr-eng:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: tesseract-ocr-eng
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng
Package Details | |
| Package: | tesseract-ocr-eng |
| Version: | 3.02-2 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | tesseract-ocr language files for English A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. This package contains the data needed for processing images in a particular language. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/graphics |
How to install tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If tesseract-ocr-eng is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L tesseract-ocr-eng' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L tesseract-ocr-eng Package `tesseract-ocr-eng' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing tesseract-ocr-eng:
After system update use the following command to install tesseract-ocr-eng:
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove tesseract-ocr-eng from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the tesseract-ocr-eng from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the tesseract-ocr-eng following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-eng
Following command is used to remove the tesseract-ocr-eng package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove tesseract-ocr-eng
This will remove tesseract-ocr-eng and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing tesseract-ocr-eng with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge tesseract-ocr-eng
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove tesseract-ocr-eng
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with tesseract-ocr-eng package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.