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