How To Install tesseract-ocr-tur on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-tur

tesseract-ocr-tur 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 Turkish language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-tur Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-tur

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-tur

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tur on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-tur

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tur And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-tur Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-tur have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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