How To Install tesseract-ocr-gla on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-gla

tesseract-ocr-gla 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 Gaelic (Scots) language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-gla Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-gla

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-gla

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-gla on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-gla

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-gla And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-gla Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-gla have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-gla website

Summary

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