How To Install tesseract-ocr-all 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 tesseract-ocr-all on Ubuntu.

What is `tesseract-ocr-all`

tesseract-ocr-all is:

This is a metapackage for Tesseract OCR and includes all supported languages and scripts.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-all 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 tesseract-ocr-all 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-all using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-all

Install tesseract-ocr-all Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-all using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-all

Install tesseract-ocr-all 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-all using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-all

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-all on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-all package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-all

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-all And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-all and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-all

Remove tesseract-ocr-all Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-all configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-all

Remove tesseract-ocr-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-all configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-all

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-all have the following dependencies:

References

tesseract-ocr-all website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-all package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.