How To Install tesseract-ocr-dzo on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-dzo on Debian 9. tesseract-ocr-dzo is tesseract-ocr language files for Dzongkha

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-dzo on Debian 9.

What is tesseract-ocr-dzo

tesseract-ocr-dzo 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-dzo 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-dzo 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-dzo using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install tesseract-ocr-dzo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-dzo

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-dzo

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-dzo on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-dzo

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-dzo And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-dzo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-dzo Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-dzo configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-dzo have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-dzo package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.