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