How To Install gimagereader on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader on Kali Linux. gimagereader is Graphical GTK+ front-end to tesseract-ocr

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader on Kali Linux.

What is gimagereader

gimagereader is:

gImageReader is a simple GTK+ front-end to tesseract-ocr. Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source optical character recognition (OCR) software and can recognize text in over 60 languages.

gImageReader supports automatic page layout detection but the user can also manually define and adjust the recognition regions. It is possible to import images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots. gImageReader also supports multipage PDF documents. Recognized text is displayed directly next to the image and basic text editing including search/replace and removing of line breaks is possible. Spellchecking for the output text is also supported if the corresponding dictionaries are installed.

There are three methods to install gimagereader 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 gimagereader Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gimagereader using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gimagereader

Install gimagereader Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gimagereader using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gimagereader

Install gimagereader 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 gimagereader using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gimagereader

How To Uninstall gimagereader on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gimagereader package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gimagereader

Uninstall gimagereader And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gimagereader

Remove gimagereader Configurations and Data

To remove gimagereader configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gimagereader

Remove gimagereader configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gimagereader configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gimagereader

Dependencies

gimagereader have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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