How to Install and Uninstall pdfsandwich Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "pdfsandwich" package

Please follow the steps below to install pdfsandwich on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "pdfsandwich" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall pdfsandwich on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pdfsandwich package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: pdfsandwich
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Installed-Size: 654
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Tobias Frost
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.1.4-1build2
Depends: exactimage, ghostscript, imagemagick, tesseract-ocr (>= 3.00), unpaper, libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/universe/p/pdfsandwich/pdfsandwich_0.1.4-1build2_amd64.deb
Size: 189054
MD5sum: d43974b5f7ee45f2ec18f81f6fdbf68d
SHA1: 64ac0c0b2d19bc071800ce12ce796b37d15da216
SHA256: 4f38c43c895374bad747a072d98092a75a12ca0767cbc73b11e0cf2972410508
Description-en: Tool to generate "sandwich" OCR pdf files.
pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain
only images (no text) will be processed by optical character recognition (OCR)
and the text will be added to each page invisibly "behind" the images.
pdfsandwich is a command line tool which is supposed to be useful to OCR
scanned books or journals.
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It is able to recognize the page layout even for multicolumn text.
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Essentially, pdfsandwich is a wrapper script which calls the following
binaries: convert, unpaper, gs, hocr2pdf (for tesseract < 3.03), and tesseract.
Description-md5: 34f5890af4974ed8324757dccc0db2b5
Homepage: http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/index.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu