How To Install tesseract-ocr-pan on Debian 12

Learn how to install tesseract-ocr-pan on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tesseract-ocr-pan is tesseract-ocr language files for Punjabi

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-pan on Debian 12.

What is tesseract-ocr-pan

tesseract-ocr-pan 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 Punjabi language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-pan 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-pan 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-pan using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-pan

Install tesseract-ocr-pan Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-pan using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-pan

Install tesseract-ocr-pan 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-pan using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-pan

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-pan on Debian 12

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-pan package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-pan

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-pan And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-pan and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-pan

Remove tesseract-ocr-pan Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-pan configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-pan

Remove tesseract-ocr-pan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-pan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-pan

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-pan have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-pan package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.