How To Install tesseract-ocr-kir on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-kir

tesseract-ocr-kir 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 Kyrgyz language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-kir Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-kir

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-kir

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kir on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-kir

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kir And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-kir Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-kir have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-kir website

Summary

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