How To Install tesseract-ocr-chi-sim on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-chi-sim

tesseract-ocr-chi-sim 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 Chinese - Simplified language.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-chi-sim

Install tesseract-ocr-chi-sim Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-chi-sim

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-chi-sim

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-chi-sim on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-chi-sim

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-chi-sim And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-chi-sim

Remove tesseract-ocr-chi-sim Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-chi-sim

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-chi-sim

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-chi-sim have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-chi-sim website

Summary

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