cuneiform software package provides multi-language OCR system, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install cuneiform
cuneiform is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cuneiform package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cuneiform *
You will get with cuneiform package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Graphics |
| Package | cuneiform |
| Version | 1.1.0+dfsg-5build5 |
| Description | multi-language OCR system |
| Sub Section | Graphics |