How To Install tesseract-ocr-lao on Debian 9
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
.