How To Install tesseract-ocr-grc on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-grc

tesseract-ocr-grc 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 Greek, Ancient (to 1453) language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-grc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-grc

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-grc

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-grc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-grc

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-grc And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-grc Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-grc have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-grc website

Summary

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