How To Install tesseract-ocr-iku on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-iku

tesseract-ocr-iku 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 Inuktitut language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-iku Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-iku

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-iku

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-iku on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-iku

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-iku And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-iku Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-iku have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-iku website

Summary

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