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gocr


Information about the package, gocr, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gocr package is designed for, GNU Optical Character Recognition program.


Package Name:

gocr

Summary:

GNU Optical Character Recognition program

Description:

GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers. GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.48

Release:

2.el6

Size:

212 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for gocr


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install gocr

This command will install gocr on the server.

yum remove gocr

This command will un-install gocr on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gocr, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove gocr

This command will un-install gocr 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 gocr when using the -y flag.

yum update gocr

This command will update gocr to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gocr, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update gocr

This command will update gocr 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 gocr when using the -y flag.

yum info gocr

This command will show you core information about the gocr package.

yum deplist gocr

This command will show you the dependencies for gocr. 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 gocr

This command will check if there is an update waiting on gocr. 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.