How To Install tesseract-ocr-lav on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-lav on Debian 9.
What is tesseract-ocr-lav
tesseract-ocr-lav 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-lav 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-lav 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-lav using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-lav
Install tesseract-ocr-lav Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-lav using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-lav
Install tesseract-ocr-lav 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-lav using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-lav
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-lav on Debian 9
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-lav package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-lav
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-lav And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-lav and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-lav
Remove tesseract-ocr-lav Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-lav configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-lav
Remove tesseract-ocr-lav configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-lav configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-lav
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-lav have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-lav package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
