How To Install tesseract-ocr-frk on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-frk

tesseract-ocr-frk 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 German (Fraktur) language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-frk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-frk

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-frk

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-frk on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-frk

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-frk And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-frk Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-frk have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-frk website

Summary

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