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

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-eng" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tesseract-ocr-eng package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: tesseract-ocr-eng
Architecture: all
Version: 1:4.00~git30-7274cfa-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Source: tesseract-lang
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 4031
Provides: tesseract-ocr-lang, tesseract-ocr-language
Recommends: tesseract-ocr (>= 3.99)
Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.99)
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data (<< 2)
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract-lang/tesseract-ocr-eng_4.00~git30-7274cfa-1_all.deb
Size: 1598188
MD5sum: 175831d63546e2afeddd2849e5ab535e
SHA1: 2f3aee85df10d5a9a5d5cfb6507565cbe43d9f7e
SHA256: e4230d5f27a07ab3bcd6d0845ad7fbfb5bfcf90346f64679896fe0c903be9e36
SHA512: e75bae344f21c2b83edaa5ace3530605730531c4d3ef2cde664811c6160b81c9fd297181363cb8c9cbe506b4ca5a640ef84004f5b42ba887fa2a94f674a87e84
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Description-en: tesseract-ocr language files for English
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 English language.
Description-md5: 2224618a933593dbae3ececd38b93246