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

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-eng" package

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


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

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

Package: tesseract-ocr-eng
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 37506
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Architecture: all
Source: tesseract-eng
Version: 3.04.00-1
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data (<< 2)
Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.04.00-1)
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract-eng/tesseract-ocr-eng_3.04.00-1_all.deb
Size: 8824184
MD5sum: 657992e37e4688d4e3eeeae8796da5ef
SHA1: eaf1e0d7719f960efdb21b64eb529d060b3941aa
SHA256: 6ccae16f26c760e12464b221bcf750888eff099e6c386948ad12cbc74d00cff2
Description-en: tesseract-ocr language files for English
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: c74d246ca37d68d7216a056bb578a8f0
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu