Add apt-get package update steps for ubuntu installation

Manas Marthi 2018-09-11 17:27:46 +01:00
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sudo apt install libtesseract-dev sudo apt install libtesseract-dev
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**Note for Ubuntu users**: In case ```apt``` is unable to find the package try adding ```universe``` entry to the ```sources.list``` file as shown below.
```
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Copy the first line "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main" and paste it as shown below on the next line.
If you are using a different release of ubuntu, then replace bionic with the respective release name.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic universe
```
Packages for over 130 languages and over 35 scripts are also available directly from the Linux distributions. The language packages are called **'tesseract-ocr-langcode'** and **'tesseract-ocr-script-scriptcode'**, where langcode is three letter language code and scriptcode is four letter script code. Packages for over 130 languages and over 35 scripts are also available directly from the Linux distributions. The language packages are called **'tesseract-ocr-langcode'** and **'tesseract-ocr-script-scriptcode'**, where langcode is three letter language code and scriptcode is four letter script code.
**Examples:** tesseract-ocr-eng (**English**), tesseract-ocr-ara (**Arabic**), tesseract-ocr-chi-sim (**Simplified Chinese**), tesseract-ocr-script-latn (**Latin Script**), tesseract-ocr-script-deva (**Devanagari script**), etc. **Examples:** tesseract-ocr-eng (**English**), tesseract-ocr-ara (**Arabic**), tesseract-ocr-chi-sim (**Simplified Chinese**), tesseract-ocr-script-latn (**Latin Script**), tesseract-ocr-script-deva (**Devanagari script**), etc.