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

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-tam" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install tesseract-ocr-tam on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall tesseract-ocr-tam on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tesseract-ocr-tam
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tesseract-ocr-tam package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: tesseract-ocr-tam
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 5032
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Architecture: all
Source: tesseract-tam
Version: 3.04.00-1
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data (<< 2)
Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.04.00-1)
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract-tam/tesseract-ocr-tam_3.04.00-1_all.deb
Size: 1572768
MD5sum: 45b54042052cf45f317265c6b00bdcc2
SHA1: 4492a39bb576ebcb5e80ba942bbacd07e74facb9
SHA256: 22e0b31988996572fd96c8b617cf0bd1ba8d7c96514947050707fbf52472d798
Description-en: tesseract-ocr language files for Tamil
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: 39a0ffbbd9708202e6f714363b2091b4
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu