How To Install tesseract-ocr-fry on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-fry

tesseract-ocr-fry 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 Frisian (Western) language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-fry Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-fry

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-fry

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-fry on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-fry

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-fry And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-fry Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-fry have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-fry website

Summary

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