How To Install tesseract-ocr-hat on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-hat on Debian 11.
What is tesseract-ocr-hat
tesseract-ocr-hat 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 Haitian language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-hat on Debian 11. 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-hat 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-hat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-hat
Install tesseract-ocr-hat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-hat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-hat
Install tesseract-ocr-hat 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-hat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-hat
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-hat on Debian 11
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-hat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-hat
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-hat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-hat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-hat
Remove tesseract-ocr-hat Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-hat configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-hat
Remove tesseract-ocr-hat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-hat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-hat
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-hat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-hat package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.