How To Install tesseract-ocr-isl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-isl

tesseract-ocr-isl 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 Icelandic language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-isl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-isl

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-isl

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-isl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-isl

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-isl And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-isl Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-isl have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-isl website

Summary

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