How To Install tesseract-ocr-ben on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ben on Debian 9.
What is tesseract-ocr-ben
tesseract-ocr-ben is:
A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. This package contains the data needed for processing images in a particular language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-ben on Debian 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.