How To Install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra on Debian 9. tesseract-ocr-chi-tra is tesseract-ocr language files for Traditional Chinese

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra on Debian 9.

What is tesseract-ocr-chi-tra

tesseract-ocr-chi-tra is:

A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. This package contains the data needed for processing images in a particular language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra

Install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra

Install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-chi-tra on Debian 9

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-chi-tra package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-chi-tra

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-chi-tra And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-chi-tra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-chi-tra

Remove tesseract-ocr-chi-tra Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-chi-tra configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-chi-tra

Remove tesseract-ocr-chi-tra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-chi-tra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-chi-tra

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-chi-tra have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-chi-tra package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.