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

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-afr" package

This tutorial shows how to install tesseract-ocr-afr on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-afr

2. Uninstall "tesseract-ocr-afr" package

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

$ sudo apt remove tesseract-ocr-afr $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the tesseract-ocr-afr package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: tesseract-ocr-afr
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 5110
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Architecture: all
Source: tesseract-afr
Version: 3.04.00-1
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data (<< 2)
Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.04.00-1)
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract-afr/tesseract-ocr-afr_3.04.00-1_all.deb
Size: 1505966
MD5sum: 0b3ec28e6d98c465a585ee24b3cdb2a8
SHA1: 2cfdfc6e03a1cadcc5ea0ff237db4421d4233b92
SHA256: 329f85c438dacd6a5a999311f7ad409bfdbae863a0ded3c1cc35f94ba7354e15
Description-en: tesseract-ocr language files for Afrikaans
A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985
and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It
was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. This package contains the data
needed for processing images in a particular language.
Description-md5: 8bc56aaba5d34a78036bb080388e767f
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu