How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: March 14,2025

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-eng" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install tesseract-ocr-eng on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye)

Package: tesseract-ocr-eng
Source: tesseract-lang
Version: 1:4.00~git30-7274cfa-1.1
Installed-Size: 4032
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: all
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data (<< 2)
Provides: tesseract-ocr-lang, tesseract-ocr-language
Recommends: tesseract-ocr (>= 3.99)
Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.99)
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_4.00~git30-7274cfa-1.1_all.deb
Size: 1592344
MD5sum: 946f344a3c39744ecf569eea6364fe4d
SHA256: 5ed52925d81cf0964459044da3a9a19a2ad24d72b5acc2adf8065a70b49d3096