How To Install tesseract-ocr-kor on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-kor

tesseract-ocr-kor 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 Korean language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-kor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-kor

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-kor

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kor on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-kor

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-kor And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-kor Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-kor have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-kor website

Summary

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