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