How To Install tesseract-ocr-chr on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-chr
on Debian 9.
What is tesseract-ocr-chr
tesseract-ocr-chr 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-chr
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-chr 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-chr
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-chr
Install tesseract-ocr-chr Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-chr
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-chr
Install tesseract-ocr-chr 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-chr
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-chr
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-chr on Debian 9
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-chr
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-chr
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-chr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-chr
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-chr
Remove tesseract-ocr-chr Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-chr
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-chr
Remove tesseract-ocr-chr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-chr
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-chr
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-chr have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-chr
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.