Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Lios (Linux Intelligent Ocr Solution) is an open-source optical character recognition (OCR) software, written in Python 3. The software extracts text for images and is very useful for getting the text from scanned documents. Also, it has a spell checker for correcting the scanned text.
The latest version available is Lios (Linux Intelligent Ocr Solution) 1.9.1, which has been released a while ago.
In this article I will show you how to install Lios (Linux Intelligent Ocr Solution) 1.9.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elemetary OS 0.3 Freya, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Debian Jessie, Fedora 20, Fedora 19, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 12.3, CentOS 7, CentOS 6, Mageia 4 and OpenMandriva Lx 2014.
Because it is not available via any repository, we have to download the deb/rpm package from sourceforge and install it via command-line. Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Lios (Linux Intelligent Ocr Solution) 1.9.1 on Ubuntu 14.04, Debian Jessie and derivative systems:
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/lios/files/Lios_1.9.1_all.deb
$ sudo gdebi Lios_1.9.1_all.deb
Optional, to remove lios, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove lios
How to install Lios (Linux Intelligent Ocr Solution) 1.9.1 on Fedora 20, Fedora 19, CentOS 7 and CentOS 6 systems:
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/lios/files/lios-1.9-1.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install lios-1.9-1.noarch.rpm
Optional, to remove lios, do:
$ sudo yum remove lios
How to install Lios (Linux Intelligent Ocr Solution) 1.9.1 on OpenSUSE 13.1 and OpenSUSE 12.3 systems:
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/lios/files/lios-1.9-1.noarch.rpm
$ sudo zypper install lios-1.9-1.noarch.rpm
Optional, to remove lios, do:
$ sudo zypper remove lios
How to install Lios (Linux Intelligent Ocr Solution) 1.9.1 on Mageia 4 and OpenMandriva Lx 2014 systems:
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/lios/files/lios-1.9-1.noarch.rpm
$ sudo urpmi lios-1.9-1.noarch.rpm
Optional, to remove lios, do:
$ sudo urpme lios