ocrfeeder command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ocrfeeder: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ocrfeeder: command not found

Solutions to ocrfeeder: command not found

How To Fix ocrfeeder: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ocrfeeder is provided by ocrfeeder package.

ocrfeeder is:

OCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

Given the images it will automatically outline its contents, distinguish between what’s graphics and text and perform OCR over the latter. It generates multiple formats being its main one ODT.

It features a complete GTK+ graphical user interface that allows the users to correct any unrecognized characters, defined or correct bounding boxes, set paragraph styles, clean the input images, import PDFs, save and load the project, export everything to multiple formats, etc.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ocrfeeder

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ocrfeeder.

sudo apt -y install ocrfeeder

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ocrfeeder

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ocrfeeder command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.