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