How To Install tesseract-ocr on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr
on Kali Linux.
What is tesseract-ocr
tesseract-ocr 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. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the command line tool.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr
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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install tesseract-ocr Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr
using apt
by running the following command:
Install tesseract-ocr 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.
After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall tesseract-ocr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove tesseract-ocr Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove tesseract-ocr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
tesseract-ocr have the following dependencies:
- libarchive13
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libicu67
- liblept5
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libstdc++6
- libtesseract4
- tesseract-ocr-eng
- tesseract-ocr-osd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.