How To Install tesseract-ocr-heb on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-heb

tesseract-ocr-heb 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 Hebrew language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-heb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-heb

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-heb

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-heb on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-heb

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-heb And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-heb Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-heb have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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