How To Install libtesseract-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libtesseract-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libtesseract-dev is Development files for the tesseract command line OCR tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtesseract-dev on Debian 12.

What is libtesseract-dev

libtesseract-dev 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. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the development files, static library, and header files.

There are three methods to install libtesseract-dev 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 libtesseract-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libtesseract-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libtesseract-dev

Install libtesseract-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libtesseract-dev

Install libtesseract-dev 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 libtesseract-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libtesseract-dev

How To Uninstall libtesseract-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libtesseract-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libtesseract-dev

Uninstall libtesseract-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtesseract-dev

Remove libtesseract-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libtesseract-dev

Remove libtesseract-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtesseract-dev

Dependencies

libtesseract-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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