How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 21,2024

You can also install and uninstall the tesseract-ocr on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "tesseract-ocr" package

Learn how to install tesseract-ocr on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall tesseract-ocr on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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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 12 (Bookworm)

Package: tesseract-ocr
Source: tesseract
Version: 5.3.0-2
Installed-Size: 2135
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data
Depends: libarchive13 (>= 3.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libharfbuzz0b (>= 1.2.6), libicu72 (>= 72.1~rc-1~), liblept5 (>= 1.75.3), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.44.3), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libtesseract5 (= 5.3.0-2), tesseract-ocr-eng (>= 4.0.9~), tesseract-ocr-osd (>= 4.0.9~)
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_5.3.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 402216
MD5sum: 06ae2165e36e1a2eb7f54529c5a619c3
SHA256: 311fed91c7311cfee54c28a0f21d700377b8131a9d114628d36d2563f99e1730