How To Install tesseract-ocr-guj on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-guj on Kali Linux. tesseract-ocr-guj is tesseract-ocr language files for Gujarati

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-guj

tesseract-ocr-guj 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 Gujarati language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-guj Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-guj

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-guj

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-guj on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-guj

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-guj And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-guj Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-guj have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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