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tesseract


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



Handy Yum Commands for tesseract


Control the tesseract package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

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.