How To Install tesseract-ocr-ell on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ell on Debian 12.
What is tesseract-ocr-ell
tesseract-ocr-ell 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 Greek language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-ell 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-ell 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-ell using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-ell
Install tesseract-ocr-ell Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-ell using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-ell
Install tesseract-ocr-ell 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-ell using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-ell
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ell on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-ell package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-ell
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ell And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-ell and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-ell
Remove tesseract-ocr-ell Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-ell configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-ell
Remove tesseract-ocr-ell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-ell configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-ell
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-ell have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-ell package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
