Information about the package, tesseract, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The tesseract package is designed for, Raw OCR Engine.
Package Name:
tesseract
Summary:
Raw OCR Engine
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.04.00
Release:
3.el6
Size:
11 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the tesseract package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install tesseract
This command will install tesseract on the server.
yum remove tesseract
This command will un-install tesseract on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tesseract, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove tesseract
This command will un-install tesseract on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tesseract when using the -y flag.
yum update tesseract
This command will update tesseract to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tesseract, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update tesseract
This command will update tesseract to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tesseract when using the -y flag.
yum info tesseract
This command will show you core information about the tesseract package.
yum deplist tesseract
This command will show you the dependencies for tesseract. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update tesseract
This command will check if there is an update waiting on tesseract. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.