How To Install tesseract-ocr-oci on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-oci on Debian 12.
What is tesseract-ocr-oci
tesseract-ocr-oci 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 Occitan (post 1500) language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-oci 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-oci 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-oci using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-oci
Install tesseract-ocr-oci Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-oci using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-oci
Install tesseract-ocr-oci 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-oci using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-oci
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-oci on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-oci package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-oci
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-oci And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-oci and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-oci
Remove tesseract-ocr-oci Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-oci configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-oci
Remove tesseract-ocr-oci configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-oci configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-oci
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-oci have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-oci package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
