How To Install tesseract-ocr-ara on Debian 12

Learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ara on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tesseract-ocr-ara is tesseract-ocr language files for Arabic

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ara on Debian 12.

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 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 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 12

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 12, 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 12 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 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.