On 9/13/24 10:31 PM, dep via tde-users wrote:
Debian Tapeworm. I'm looking more for something
that lists what's out
there, rather than what I have installed.
$ apt-cache search "search term"
Will list all packages out there that match search term, e.g.
$ apt-cache search tesseract
gimagereader - Graphical GTK+ front-end to tesseract-ocr
libavfilter-extra7 - FFmpeg library with extra media filters - runtime files
libtesseract-dev - Development files for the tesseract command line OCR tool
libtesseract4 - Tesseract OCR library
lios - Linux intelligent OCR solution
ocrmypdf - add an OCR text layer to PDF files
ocrmypdf-doc - add an OCR text layer to PDF files - documentation
pdfsandwich - Tool to generate "sandwich" OCR pdf files
python3-pyocr - Python wrapper for OCR engines (Python 3)
python3-tesserocr - Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API (Python3 version)
slimrat - GUI application for automated downloading from file hosters
slimrat-nox - CLI application for automated downloading from file hosters
tesseract-ocr - Tesseract command line OCR tool
tesseract-ocr-afr - tesseract-ocr language files for Afrikaans
...
I always found that fine, and you can pipe it to grep to refine the results :)
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.