How To Install tesseract-ocr-ben on Debian 10

Learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ben on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tesseract-ocr-ben is tesseract-ocr language files for Bengali

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ben on Debian 10.

What is tesseract-ocr-ben

tesseract-ocr-ben 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 Bengali language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-ben 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-ben 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-ben using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-ben

Install tesseract-ocr-ben Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-ben using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-ben

Install tesseract-ocr-ben 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-ben using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-ben

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ben on Debian 10

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-ben package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-ben

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ben And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-ben and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-ben

Remove tesseract-ocr-ben Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-ben configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-ben

Remove tesseract-ocr-ben configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-ben configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-ben

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-ben have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ben package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.