How To Install tesseract-ocr-fra on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-fra

tesseract-ocr-fra 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 French language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-fra Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-fra

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-fra

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-fra on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-fra

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-fra And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-fra Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-fra have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-fra website

Summary

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