How To Install libtesseract4 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 libtesseract4 on Ubuntu.
What is libtesseract4
libtesseract4 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. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the shared library.
There are three methods to install libtesseract4 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 libtesseract4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtesseract4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtesseract4
Install libtesseract4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtesseract4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtesseract4
Install libtesseract4 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 libtesseract4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtesseract4
How To Uninstall libtesseract4 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libtesseract4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtesseract4
Uninstall libtesseract4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtesseract4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtesseract4
Remove libtesseract4 Configurations and Data
To remove libtesseract4 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtesseract4
Remove libtesseract4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtesseract4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtesseract4
Dependencies
libtesseract4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtesseract4 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.