How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install tesseract-ocr on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                tesseract-ocr
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "tesseract-ocr" package

Learn how to uninstall tesseract-ocr on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tesseract-ocr
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tesseract-ocr package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: tesseract-ocr
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Source: tesseract
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1042
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libicu60 (>= 60.1-1~), liblept5, libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.2), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtesseract4 (>= 4.00~), tesseract-ocr-eng (>= 4.00~), tesseract-ocr-osd (>= 4.00~)
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract/tesseract-ocr_4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2_amd64.deb
Size: 217820
MD5sum: e744af6e041611660d50ec33a5fa191f
SHA1: c1b6a217bd942a2fb15917460377e5050e0d8191
SHA256: 4e804f016a070a7a97136aae57b9bea93f1c737a6b433ff7a06e49baa758c064
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Description: Tesseract command line OCR tool
Description-md5: acb8df45c462787396725e59a64b0636