gimagereader-qt5 command not found

Introduction

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

gimagereader-qt5: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gimagereader-qt5: command not found

Solutions to gimagereader-qt5: command not found

How To Fix gimagereader-qt5: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gimagereader-qt5 is provided by gimagereader-qt5 package.

gimagereader-qt5 is:

gImageReader is a simple front-end to tesseract-ocr. Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source optical character recognition (OCR) software and can recognize text in over 60 languages.

gImageReader supports automatic page layout detection but the user can also manually define and adjust the recognition regions. It is possible to import images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots. gImageReader also supports multipage PDF documents. Recognized text is displayed directly next to the image and basic text editing including search/replace and removing of line breaks is possible. Spellchecking for the output text is also supported if the corresponding dictionaries are installed.

This package contains the Qt 5 variant of gImageReader.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gimagereader-qt5

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

You can also use apt command to install gimagereader-qt5.

sudo apt -y install gimagereader-qt5

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

sudo aptitude install gimagereader-qt5

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gimagereader-qt5 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.