How To Install tesseract-ocr-mal on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-mal

tesseract-ocr-mal 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 Malayalam language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-mal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-mal

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-mal

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-mal on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-mal

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-mal And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-mal Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-mal have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-mal website

Summary

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