cuneiform command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix cuneiform command not found error message

Introduction

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

cuneiform: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cuneiform: command not found

Solutions to cuneiform: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cuneiform is provided by cuneiform package.

cuneiform is:

Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format recognition.

The following languages are supported: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cuneiform

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

You can also use apt command to install cuneiform.

sudo apt -y install cuneiform

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

sudo aptitude install cuneiform

Summary

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