How To Install gimagereader-qt5 on Debian 12

Learn how to install gimagereader-qt5 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gimagereader-qt5 is Graphical Qt 5 front-end to tesseract-ocr

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-qt5 on Debian 12.

What is gimagereader-qt5

gimagereader-qt5 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 the Qt 5 variant of gImageReader.

There are three methods to install gimagereader-qt5 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-qt5 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-qt5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gimagereader-qt5

Install gimagereader-qt5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gimagereader-qt5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gimagereader-qt5

Install gimagereader-qt5 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-qt5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gimagereader-qt5

How To Uninstall gimagereader-qt5 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the gimagereader-qt5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gimagereader-qt5

Uninstall gimagereader-qt5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gimagereader-qt5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gimagereader-qt5

Remove gimagereader-qt5 Configurations and Data

To remove gimagereader-qt5 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gimagereader-qt5

Remove gimagereader-qt5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gimagereader-qt5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gimagereader-qt5

Dependencies

gimagereader-qt5 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-qt5 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.