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