How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 30,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr" package

Learn how to install tesseract-ocr on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: tesseract-ocr
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.1.1-2build3
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: 1544
Depends: libarchive13 (>= 3.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libicu67 (>= 67.1-1~), liblept5 (>= 1.75.3), 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 (= 4.1.1-2build3), tesseract-ocr-eng (>= 4.00~), tesseract-ocr-osd (>= 4.00~)
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract/tesseract-ocr_4.1.1-2build3_amd64.deb
Size: 262628
MD5sum: 758db44a310e0db93fd972e1aacc279b
SHA1: 5b3909d8da3457badfd6f3f28424702ad6565001
SHA256: 874e522a07fd22600450b85be0f6a82533974f7a12b946111d6ea8d3eddaf4b2
SHA512: addc7f2694b4997fab4758dfad6d26911ed27639a308072656821431b69c7b5ade9d5ecbb7db7b2b1e051fc11c22dff3be0a2e2408085fe79df166fd3a6fadfd
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Description-en: Tesseract command line OCR tool
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. It supports a wide variety of
languages. This package includes the command line tool.
Description-md5: acb8df45c462787396725e59a64b0636