How To Install tesseract-ocr-kat on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-kat

tesseract-ocr-kat 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 Georgian language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-kat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-kat

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-kat

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-kat

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kat And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-kat Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-kat have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-kat website

Summary

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