How To Install cuneiform on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cuneiform on Ubuntu.
What is cuneiform
cuneiform is:
Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format recognition.
The following languages are supported: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
There are three methods to install cuneiform on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cuneiform Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cuneiform using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cuneiform
Install cuneiform Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cuneiform using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cuneiform
Install cuneiform 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 cuneiform using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cuneiform
How To Uninstall cuneiform on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the cuneiform package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cuneiform
Uninstall cuneiform And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cuneiform and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cuneiform
Remove cuneiform Configurations and Data
To remove cuneiform configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cuneiform
Remove cuneiform configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cuneiform configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cuneiform
Dependencies
cuneiform have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cuneiform package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.