How To Install tesseract-ocr-rus on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-rus on Debian 9. tesseract-ocr-rus is tesseract-ocr language files for Russian

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-rus on Debian 9.

What is tesseract-ocr-rus

tesseract-ocr-rus 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-rus 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-rus 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-rus using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-rus

Install tesseract-ocr-rus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-rus using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-rus

Install tesseract-ocr-rus 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-rus using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-rus

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-rus on Debian 9

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-rus package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-rus

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-rus And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-rus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-rus

Remove tesseract-ocr-rus Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-rus configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-rus

Remove tesseract-ocr-rus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-rus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-rus

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-rus have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-rus package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.