How To Install tesseract-ocr-lat on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-lat
on Debian 12.
What is tesseract-ocr-lat
tesseract-ocr-lat 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 Latin language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-lat
on Debian 12. 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-lat 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-lat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-lat
Install tesseract-ocr-lat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-lat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-lat
Install tesseract-ocr-lat 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-lat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-lat
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-lat on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-lat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-lat
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-lat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-lat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-lat
Remove tesseract-ocr-lat Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-lat
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-lat
Remove tesseract-ocr-lat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-lat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-lat
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-lat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-lat
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.