How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr" package

Please follow the guidance below to install tesseract-ocr on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "tesseract-ocr" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall tesseract-ocr on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: tesseract-ocr
Source: tesseract
Version: 4.0.0-2
Installed-Size: 1119
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.2.1), libicu63 (>= 63.1-1~), liblept5 (>= 1.75.3), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.2), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtesseract4 (>= 4.00~), tesseract-ocr-eng (>= 4.00~), tesseract-ocr-osd (>= 4.00~)
Description: Tesseract command line OCR tool
Description-md5: acb8df45c462787396725e59a64b0636
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Tag: accessibility::ocr, implemented-in::c++, interface::commandline,
role::program
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tesseract/tesseract-ocr_4.0.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 261504
MD5sum: 392ed0932d250ff802175ab6dd632b39
SHA256: b3376fcab25fd9b8fbb3ee6d4028b4e13389662f4e7bc987cbca3ddbf718d311