How To Install tesseract-ocr-script-taml on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-taml on Kali Linux. tesseract-ocr-script-taml is tesseract-ocr data for Tamil script

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-taml on Kali Linux.

What is tesseract-ocr-script-taml

tesseract-ocr-script-taml is:

Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. This package contains the data needed for processing images in Tamil script.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-script-taml on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tesseract-ocr-script-taml Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-script-taml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-script-taml

Install tesseract-ocr-script-taml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-script-taml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-script-taml

Install tesseract-ocr-script-taml Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-script-taml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-script-taml

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-taml on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-script-taml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-script-taml

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-taml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-taml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-script-taml

Remove tesseract-ocr-script-taml Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-script-taml configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-script-taml

Remove tesseract-ocr-script-taml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-script-taml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-script-taml

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-script-taml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-script-taml package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.