tesseract-git on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "tesseract-git" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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b. Install tesseract-git on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                tesseract-git
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall tesseract-git on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                tesseract-git
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "tesseract-git" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed
            
                        
                base-devel git
            
                    
    
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b. Clone tesseract-git's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tesseract-git.git 
            
                        
                ~/tesseract-git
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/tesseract-git folder and install it


   
    
        
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                cd
            
                        
                ~/tesseract-git
            
                    
    
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                makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tesseract-git package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1023940
Name: tesseract-git
PackageBaseID: 95462
PackageBase: tesseract-git
Version: 1:5.0.1.r9.g31a96843-1
Description: Open Source OCR Engine
URL: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/
NumVotes: 38
Popularity: 0.076819
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: FabioLolix
Submitter: stativ
FirstSubmitted: 1435869028
LastModified: 1642974372
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/tesseract-git.tar.gz