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