How To Install tesseract-ocr-frm on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-frm on Kali Linux. tesseract-ocr-frm is tesseract-ocr language files for French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-frm

tesseract-ocr-frm 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, Middle (ca.1400-1600) language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-frm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-frm

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-frm

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-frm on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-frm

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-frm And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-frm Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-frm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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