ocrad command not found

Introduction

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

ocrad: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ocrad: command not found

Solutions to ocrad: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ocrad is provided by ocrad package.

ocrad is:

GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a feature extraction method. It reads a bitmap image in pgm/pbm format and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats.

Ocrad includes a layout analyzer able to separate the columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages.

This package includes the command-line tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ocrad

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

You can also use apt command to install ocrad.

sudo apt -y install ocrad

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

sudo aptitude install ocrad

Summary

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