How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "tesseract-ocr" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install tesseract-ocr on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall tesseract-ocr on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: tesseract-ocr
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 549
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Architecture: amd64
Source: tesseract
Version: 3.04.01-4
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11.94), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libicu55 (>= 55.1-1~), liblept5, libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtesseract3 (>= 3.03~), tesseract-ocr-eng (>= 3.01~), tesseract-ocr-osd, tesseract-ocr-equ
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract/tesseract-ocr_3.04.01-4_amd64.deb
Size: 132176
MD5sum: b5fb500d86c012d4fdb24ee4b8345f07
SHA1: 316f2f5871161e3e3b2555a5344f57c92b0cb2e2
SHA256: 776d7a39669843a7770c803b487f508efe3c00d1a2afb298e6ebfe3461884665
Description-en: Tesseract command line OCR tool
The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995
UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on
it, but since then it has been improved extensively by Google and is
probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines
available. It can read a wide variety of image formats and convert
them to text in over 40 languages. This package includes the command
line tool.
Description-md5: 035746108bb4d25cb6e96441e8073257
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu