How To Install tesseract-ocr-bre on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 362 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-bre on Ubuntu.
What is tesseract-ocr-bre
tesseract-ocr-bre 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 Breton language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-bre 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-bre 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-bre using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-bre
Install tesseract-ocr-bre Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-bre using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-bre
Install tesseract-ocr-bre 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-bre using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-bre
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-bre on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-bre package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-bre
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-bre And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-bre and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-bre
Remove tesseract-ocr-bre Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-bre configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-bre
Remove tesseract-ocr-bre configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-bre configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-bre
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-bre have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-bre package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.