How To Install tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl on Debian 10

Learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl is tesseract-ocr data for Cyrillic script

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl on Debian 10.

What is tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl

tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl 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 Cyrillic script.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl

Install tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl

Remove tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-cyrl package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.