How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the tesseract-ocr-eng on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-eng" package

This guide let you learn how to install tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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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 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: tesseract-ocr-eng
Architecture: all
Version: 1:4.00~git30-7274cfa-1.1
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-1.1_all.deb
Size: 1591088
MD5sum: c697324b6a715996d582c51ff1b7203a
SHA1: 704e69aa120c9706d0ea7a62426743683aadd619
SHA256: a4709bd43f71c83f9171071dddaf87a125f467d5258bd323048d49b054ef5eb8
SHA512: d7adc1cf214396155a80f34371a2366e686e622ab29e35448d428668966635fa678d5368e5c74d0b065dfffaa31e22c07b5643777c50d82799210eba1cf8cb0b
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Description: tesseract-ocr language files for English
Description-md5: 2224618a933593dbae3ececd38b93246