How To Install tesseract-ocr-bos on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-bos

tesseract-ocr-bos 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 Bosnian language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-bos Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-bos

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-bos

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-bos on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-bos

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-bos And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-bos Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-bos have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-bos website

Summary

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