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