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