How To Install python3-tesserocr on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-tesserocr on Debian 12.
What is python3-tesserocr
python3-tesserocr is:
A simple, Pillow-friendly, wrapper around the tesseract-ocr API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
tesserocr integrates directly with Tesseract’s C++ API using Cython which allows for a simple Pythonic and easy-to-read source code. It enables real concurrent execution when used with Python’s threading module by releasing the GIL while processing an image in tesseract.
tesserocr is designed to be Pillow-friendly but can also be used with image files instead.
This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.
There are three methods to install python3-tesserocr 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 python3-tesserocr Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-tesserocr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-tesserocr
Install python3-tesserocr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-tesserocr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-tesserocr
Install python3-tesserocr 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 python3-tesserocr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-tesserocr
How To Uninstall python3-tesserocr on Debian 12
To uninstall only the python3-tesserocr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-tesserocr
Uninstall python3-tesserocr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-tesserocr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-tesserocr
Remove python3-tesserocr Configurations and Data
To remove python3-tesserocr configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-tesserocr
Remove python3-tesserocr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-tesserocr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-tesserocr
Dependencies
python3-tesserocr have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-tesserocr package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
