How To Install tesseract-ocr-equ on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-equ on Debian 9. tesseract-ocr-equ is tesseract-ocr language files for equations

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-equ

tesseract-ocr-equ 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 of mathematics.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-equ 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-equ 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-equ using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-equ

Install tesseract-ocr-equ Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-equ

Install tesseract-ocr-equ 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-equ using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-equ

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-equ on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-equ

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-equ And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-equ

Remove tesseract-ocr-equ Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-equ

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-equ

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-equ have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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