How To Install tesseract-ocr-kmr on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-kmr

tesseract-ocr-kmr 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 Kurmanji (Latin) language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-kmr Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-kmr

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-kmr

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kmr on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-kmr

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kmr And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-kmr Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-kmr have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-kmr website

Summary

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