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

Last updated: May 18,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-eng" package

Please follow the guidance below to install tesseract-ocr-eng 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-eng" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng 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-eng package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: tesseract-ocr-eng
Source: tesseract-lang
Version: 1:4.1.0-2
Installed-Size: 4032
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: all
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data (<< 2)
Provides: tesseract-ocr-lang, tesseract-ocr-language
Recommends: tesseract-ocr (>= 4.9.9)
Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< 4.9.9)
Description: tesseract-ocr language files for English
Description-md5: 2224618a933593dbae3ececd38b93246
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Tag: accessibility::ocr, culture::TODO, role::app-data
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tesseract-lang/tesseract-ocr-eng_4.1.0-2_all.deb
Size: 1593640
MD5sum: 496001dc0df6b4ebf7cb5c0560abe921
SHA256: 9242d054563262398f8cf41fbd96fcc72f9dde70db16de18539882a6cff74f9d