How To Install tesseract-ocr-grc 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-grc on Ubuntu.
What is tesseract-ocr-grc
tesseract-ocr-grc 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 Greek, Ancient (to 1453) language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-grc 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-grc 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-grc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-grc
Install tesseract-ocr-grc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-grc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-grc
Install tesseract-ocr-grc 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-grc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-grc
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-grc on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-grc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-grc
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-grc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-grc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-grc
Remove tesseract-ocr-grc Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-grc configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-grc
Remove tesseract-ocr-grc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-grc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-grc
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-grc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-grc package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.