How To Install tesseract-ocr-sin on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-sin on Kali Linux. tesseract-ocr-sin is tesseract-ocr language files for Sinhala

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-sin

tesseract-ocr-sin 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 Sinhala language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-sin 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-sin 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-sin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-sin

Install tesseract-ocr-sin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-sin

Install tesseract-ocr-sin 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-sin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-sin

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-sin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-sin

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-sin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-sin

Remove tesseract-ocr-sin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-sin

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-sin

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-sin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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