How To Install tesseract-ocr-hat on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-hat

tesseract-ocr-hat 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 Haitian language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-hat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-hat

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-hat

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-hat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-hat

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-hat And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-hat Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-hat have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-hat website

Summary

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