How To Install tesseract-ocr-tel on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-tel on Debian 11. tesseract-ocr-tel is tesseract-ocr language files for Telugu

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-tel on Debian 11.

What is tesseract-ocr-tel

tesseract-ocr-tel 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 Telugu language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-tel on Debian 11. 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-tel 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-tel using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install tesseract-ocr-tel Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-tel

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-tel

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tel on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-tel

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tel And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-tel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-tel Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-tel configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-tel have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-tel package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.