How To Install tesseract-ocr-ara on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ara on Debian 10.
What is tesseract-ocr-ara
tesseract-ocr-ara 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. This package contains the data needed for processing images in Arabic language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-ara on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tesseract-ocr-ara Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-ara using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-ara
Install tesseract-ocr-ara Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-ara using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-ara
Install tesseract-ocr-ara 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 tesseract-ocr-ara using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-ara
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ara on Debian 10
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-ara package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-ara
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ara And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-ara and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-ara
Remove tesseract-ocr-ara Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-ara configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-ara
Remove tesseract-ocr-ara configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-ara configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-ara
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-ara have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ara package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.