How to Install and Uninstall ocrmypdf Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: March 14,2025

1. Install "ocrmypdf" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install ocrmypdf on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                ocrmypdf
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ocrmypdf" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall ocrmypdf on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ocrmypdf
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ocrmypdf package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: ocrmypdf
Version: 8.0.1+dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 431
Maintainer: Sean Whitton
Architecture: all
Depends: ghostscript (>= 9.18~dfsg~), icc-profiles-free, liblept5, python3-pdfminer (>= 20181108+dfsg-3), python3-pil, python3-pkg-resources, python3-reportlab, python3-ruffus (>= 2.8), qpdf (>= 8.0.2), tesseract-ocr (>= 4.0.0), zlib1g, python3-cffi-backend-api-min (<= 9729), python3-cffi-backend-api-max (>= 9729), python3-chardet, python3-img2pdf (>= 0.3.0), python3-pikepdf, python3:any
Recommends: unpaper, pngquant
Suggests: ocrmypdf-doc, python-watchdog, img2pdf
Description: add an OCR text layer to PDF files
Description-md5: 92e84e27a8b71a2a3c36765dc4aab039
Homepage: https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf_8.0.1+dfsg-1_all.deb
Size: 112108
MD5sum: 64832473f3f7a58751e8d2569b8bc2f5
SHA256: 7a9907c784edc4d0459837748d9af990987584a6925bb42336c4e80ecf1544fb