How To Install tesseract-ocr-lao on Debian 9

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-lao

tesseract-ocr-lao 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-lao 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-lao 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-lao using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install tesseract-ocr-lao Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-lao

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-lao

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-lao on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-lao

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-lao And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-lao Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-lao have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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