How To Install tesseract-ocr-afr on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-afr

tesseract-ocr-afr 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 Afrikaans language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-afr Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-afr

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-afr

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-afr on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-afr

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-afr And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-afr Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-afr have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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