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