How To Install tesseract-ocr-isl on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-isl on Debian 11.
What is tesseract-ocr-isl
tesseract-ocr-isl is:
Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. This package contains the data needed for processing images in Icelandic language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-isl on Debian 11. 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-isl 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-isl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-isl
Install tesseract-ocr-isl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-isl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-isl
Install tesseract-ocr-isl 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-isl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-isl
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-isl on Debian 11
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-isl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-isl
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-isl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-isl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-isl
Remove tesseract-ocr-isl Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-isl configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-isl
Remove tesseract-ocr-isl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-isl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-isl
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-isl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-isl package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
