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