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