How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr" package

This tutorial shows how to install tesseract-ocr on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall tesseract-ocr on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: tesseract-ocr
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.1.1-2.1
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 (= 4.1.1-2.1), tesseract-ocr-eng (>= 4.00~), tesseract-ocr-osd (>= 4.00~)
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract/tesseract-ocr_4.1.1-2.1_amd64.deb
Size: 262680
MD5sum: 109f49551753f167e9fb23e78be0b6de
SHA1: 249f36eb25eea29a544e4fa37ef74207fa95a923
SHA256: 06212d7c3ff94d29d4e6d4bd24046bd195f35cbc94c696c391b25d96c3f810d5
SHA512: 74491edb586e2bce9c4aa4842da0f85ba0cee9ac310fa6a010373c9c8936493d1e942e89d8852d054548929ca8d1ca4cca22767bad99cf84811fe33deb9dab6d
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