How To Install tesseract-ocr-script-deva on Debian 12

Learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-deva on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tesseract-ocr-script-deva is tesseract-ocr data for Devanagari script

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-script-deva

tesseract-ocr-script-deva 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 Devanagari script.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-script-deva Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

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

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

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

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-deva on Debian 12

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

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

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-deva And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-script-deva Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

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

References

Summary

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