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