How To Install gimagereader-common on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-common on Debian 12.
What is gimagereader-common
gimagereader-common is:
gImageReader is a simple front-end to tesseract-ocr. Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source optical character recognition (OCR) software and can recognize text in over 60 languages.
gImageReader supports automatic page layout detection but the user can also manually define and adjust the recognition regions. It is possible to import images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots. gImageReader also supports multipage PDF documents. Recognized text is displayed directly next to the image and basic text editing including search/replace and removing of line breaks is possible. Spellchecking for the output text is also supported if the corresponding dictionaries are installed.
This package contains common files for the GTK+ and Qt 5 variants of gImageReader.
There are three methods to install gimagereader-common on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gimagereader-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gimagereader-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gimagereader-common
Install gimagereader-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gimagereader-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gimagereader-common
Install gimagereader-common 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 gimagereader-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gimagereader-common
How To Uninstall gimagereader-common on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gimagereader-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gimagereader-common
Uninstall gimagereader-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gimagereader-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gimagereader-common
Remove gimagereader-common Configurations and Data
To remove gimagereader-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gimagereader-common
Remove gimagereader-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gimagereader-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gimagereader-common
Dependencies
gimagereader-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
