How To Install tesseract-ocr-spa-old on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-spa-old on Debian 9.
What is tesseract-ocr-spa-old
tesseract-ocr-spa-old is:
A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. This package contains the data needed for processing images in a particular language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-spa-old on Debian 9. 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-spa-old 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-spa-old using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-spa-old
Install tesseract-ocr-spa-old Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-spa-old using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-spa-old
Install tesseract-ocr-spa-old 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-spa-old using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-spa-old
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-spa-old on Debian 9
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-spa-old package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-spa-old
Uninstall tesseract-ocr-spa-old And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-spa-old and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-spa-old
Remove tesseract-ocr-spa-old Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-spa-old configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-spa-old
Remove tesseract-ocr-spa-old configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-spa-old configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-spa-old
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr-spa-old have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-spa-old package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.