How To Install tesseract-ocr-cos on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-cos

tesseract-ocr-cos 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 Corsican language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-cos Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-cos

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-cos

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-cos on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-cos

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-cos And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-cos Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-cos have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-cos website

Summary

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